{"product_id":"the-lowlife","title":"The Lowlife","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Lowlife\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAlexander Baron\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780571393473\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eFaber \u0026amp; Faber\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eMain\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e256\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Never give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terrific.\" - Sebastian Faulks\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"The Lowlife | Alexander Baron | Paperback | 9780571393473 | New | Fiction 1712767","offer_id":48961884684440,"sku":"1712767","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81BwMhy8bwL.jpg?v=1777917792","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-lowlife","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}