EAN: 9780571393473

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

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

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