{"product_id":"9780571393473","title":"The Lowlife (Faber Editions) : 'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' - Sebastian Faulks (by Alexander Baron)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eSeries: Faber Editions\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne Londoner gambles on his own life in this lost classic by 'one of the great English Jewish novelists' (Times), introduced by Iain Sinclair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' Sebastian Faulks'A fascinating snapshot of a lost London world, by a remarkable neglected writer.' Sarah WatersA wonderfully enduring novel . . . A great rediscovery.' William Boyd'Perfect . . . Captures London in all its grime and glory.' Benjamin MyersNever give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The greatest British novelist of the last war and among the finest, most underrated, of the postwar period.' Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49386337173731,"sku":"9780571393473","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1701\/6275\/files\/9780571393473.jpg?v=1783621026","url":"https:\/\/www.harbourbookshop.live\/products\/9780571393473","provider":"The Harbour Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}