{"product_id":"9780571393473","title":"The Lowlife (Faber Editions) : 'Terrific. Propulsive, funny and touching.' - Sebastian Faulks","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Baron, Alexander \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 8 May 2025 by FABER \u0026amp; FABER in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Faber Editions' series.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e130 x 198 x 19 | 220g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNever 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, brad and beg to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Terrific.' Sebastian Faulks\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46829743145219,"sku":"9780571393473","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9780571393473_aaaae1a5-dbd0-4be3-bf95-25814dc71828.jpg?v=1748253798","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.live\/products\/9780571393473","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}