{"product_id":"the-lowlife-faber-editions-alexander-baron-9780571393473","title":"The Lowlife (Faber Editions)","description":"Never give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.\nHarryboy 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.\nA 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.\n'Terrific.' Sebastian Faulks","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50163864535328,"sku":"9780571393473","price":8.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780571393473.jpg?v=1780712089","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/the-lowlife-faber-editions-alexander-baron-9780571393473","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}