{"product_id":"the-lowlife-faber-editions-terrific-propulsive-funny-and-touching-sebastian-faulks-9780571393473","title":"The Lowlife (Faber Editions): 'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' - Sebastian Faulks","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexander Baron\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIXGD\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIXGD\u003cbr\u003e • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNever give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarryboy Boas is a lowlife gambler. When he's not at the track, he lives in a Hackney boarding house, reading Zola, eating salt beef, pressing trousers and repressing wartime memories. But when a new family moves into the apartment downstairs, his life starts to unravel and Harryboy soon finds himself sinking into a murky East End underworld where violence, guilt and gangsters are the inevitable result for those who cannot pay their dues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA celebrated cult classic, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Lowlife \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebrilliantly evokes post-war East London - dog tracks, sandwich shops, tenements, sex workers, newly arrived West Indians and Jews leaving for Finchley - all seen through the tragicomic eyes of Harryboy, our picaresque rogue hero suffering from 'existential burn-out in the shadow of the Holocaust' (Iain Sinclair) and driven to bet, brag and beg to survive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Terrific.' \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSebastian Faulks\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45847782949015,"sku":"9780571393473","price":769.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780571393473.webp?v=1769297082","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-lowlife-faber-editions-terrific-propulsive-funny-and-touching-sebastian-faulks-9780571393473","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}