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

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

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Iain Sinclair has lived in Hackney since 1968. He is the award-winning author of numerous critically acclaimed books about London, including The Last London, Lights Out for the Territory, London Orbital, Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire and London Overground. He won the Encore Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel Downriver.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alexander Baron, Baron Alexander
• Mitarbeit: Iain Sinclair (Einführung)
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Inhalt: Buch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.05.2025
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur
• EAN: 9780571393473
• ISBN: 978-0-571-39347-3
• Abmessung (Verpackung): 13 x 20 x 1.5 cm
• Serie: Faber Editions
• Themen: FICTION / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Jewish, Family life fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Iain Sinclair The Glass Pearls Emeric Pressburger London Orbital Lights Out for the Territory London Belongs to Me, John Healy Grass Arena Angry Young Men Kes John Osborne A Kestrel for a Knave, Sebastian Faulks Benjamin Myers The Offing Sarah Waters William Boyd, Douglas Stuart Shuggie Bain Samuel Selvon The Lonely Londoners The Ballard of Peckham Rye The Golden Notebook, Faber Editions Penguin Classics Muriel Spark Iris Murdoch Doris Lessing London Novels, Love on the Dole Alan Sillitoe The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner The Buddha of Suburbia Caliban Shrieks William Boyd, The Outsider Colin Wilson The Outsiders Chester Himes Patrick Hamilton Hangover Square The Slaves of Solitude