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

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Baron, AlexanderModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 8 May 2025 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Faber Editions' series.Paperback | 256 pag es130 x 198 x 19 | 222g 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 Show more