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The Lowlife: (Faber Editions)

(Paperback, Main)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

The Lowlife: (Faber Editions)

Contributors:

By (Author) Alexander Baron
Introduction by Iain Sinclair

ISBN:

9780571393473

Publisher:

Faber & Faber

Imprint:

Faber & Faber

Publication Date:

29th July 2025

UK Publication Date:

8th May 2025

Edition:

Main

Country:

United Kingdom

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction
Family life fiction / Stories about family

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

256

Dimensions:

Width 129mm, Height 198mm

Description

The day they moved in was a memorable one for me. Not because of them, for I couldn't know what they were to bring into my life, but because of a dog.

Harryboy Boas is a gambling man. An independent Jewish bachelor, he lives in a Hackney boarding house: reading Zola, betting on the dogs at the track, womanising, philosophising, and repressing his tortured wartime past. Until, that is, a new family moves in. As his life dramatically unravels - financially, emotionally, and existentially - Harryboy descends into a murky criminal underworld where debts, violence, gangsters and revenge are the inevitable payback for those who can't pay up ...

'Extraordinary.' William Boyd

Author Bio

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.

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