{"product_id":"the-lowlife-faber-editions","title":"The Lowlife (Faber Editions)","description":"One 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.\n\n\"A novel and author richly deserving of renewed attention.\"—Kirkus starred review ⭐\n\nNever give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.\n\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.\n\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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0571393470\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0571393470.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Baron, Alexander|Sinclair, Iain\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43751468531773,"sku":"BVV.0571393470.VG","price":12.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0571393470-0.jpg?v=1790976641","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/the-lowlife-faber-editions","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}