- Počet strán: 256
- Väzba: mäkká, brožovaná
- EAN: 9780571393473
- Jazyk: anglický
- ISBN: 9780571393473
- Dátum vydania: 8. mája 2025
- Vydavateľstvo : Faber & Faber
The Lowlife (Faber Editions)
Alexander Baron
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.''Terrific.'' Sebastian Faulks
- Počet strán: 256
- Väzba: mäkká, brožovaná
- EAN: 9780571393473
- Jazyk: anglický
- ISBN: 9780571393473
- Dátum vydania: 8. mája 2025
- Vydavateľstvo : Faber & Faber
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.''Terrific.'' Sebastian Faulks
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