The Lowlife (Faber Editions): 'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' - Sebastian Faulks

di Alexander Baron (Autore)

Faber & Faber, 2025

Never give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line. Harryboy 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. A celebrated cult classic, The Lowlife brilliantly 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, brad and beg to survive. 'Terrific.' Sebastian Faulks

• Autore: Alexander Baron
• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Collana: Faber Editions
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 198 x 129 mm
• EAN: 9780571393473

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