Alexander Baron

The Lowlife (Faber Editions) (eBook, ePUB)

'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' - Sebastian Faulks

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

One man gambles on his own life in this rediscovered Jewish post-war classic of London's seedy underbelly, introduced by Iain Sinclair. 'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' Sebastian Faulks 'A fascinating snapshot of a lost London world, by a remarkable neglected writer.' Sarah Waters A wonderfully enduring novel . . . A great rediscovery.' William Boyd 'Perfect . . . Captures London in all its grime and glory.' Benjamin Myers 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, brag and beg to survive. 'The greatest British novelist of the last war and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period.' Guardian

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780571393480
• Artikelnr.: 72844232

Autorenporträt

Alexander Baron (1917 - 1999) grew up in in Hackney, East London. The son of Jewish parents, he was drawn into the anti-fascist struggle, confronting Mosley's blackshirts on the streets of Whitechapel. He became assistant editor of Tribune before enlisting in the army in 1940 and fighting in Italy, Sicily and across France from the Normandy D-Day beaches. His experiences during the Second World War gave him the material for his first novel, From the City, From the Plough (1948), the first in his celebrated wartime trilogy. He wrote several novels set in London's East End as well as Hollywood screenplays and BBC adaptations of classic novels. Carl Foreman's great war film The Victors (1963) was adapted from Baron's The Human Kind (1953). He died in 1999.