{"product_id":"lowlife-1","title":"Lowlife (Faber Editions)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne Londoner gambles on his own life in this lost classic by 'one of the great English Jewish novelists' (\u003ci\u003eTimes\u003c\/i\u003e), introduced by Iain Sinclair.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.'\u003cb\u003e Sebastian Faulks\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A fascinating snapshot of a lost London world, by a remarkable neglected writer.'\u003cb\u003e Sarah Waters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA wonderfully enduring novel . . . A great rediscovery.' \u003cb\u003eWilliam Boyd\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Perfect . . . Captures London in all its grime and glory.' \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Myers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNever give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHarryboy 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA celebrated cult classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Lowlife \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The greatest British novelist of the last war and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period.' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54250063397208,"sku":"9780571393473","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780571393473.jpg?v=1777886114","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lowlife-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}