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The Lowlife (Faber Editions)
'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' - Sebastian Faulks
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Faber & Faber Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: D9E36NW
EAN: 9780571393473
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Zustellung: Do, 06.08.2026
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Beschreibung
One man gambles on the dogs and his own life in this rediscovered Jewish post-war classic of London's seedy underbelly, introduced by Iain Sinclair.. "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.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- Baron Alexander
- Iain Sinclair
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 256