Boy - Oneworld Classics
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Acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner and suppressed for more than 50 years by a prosecution for obscenity, James Hanley's 1930s classic charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work. Escape—in the form of stowing away on a ship—only deepens his exposure to the squalor and brutality that men are capable of, and when he arrives in Alexandria he learns there are some things that one can't run away from. Narrated in unflinching language that is both visceral and acute in its observational power, Boy is a shocking book that stays in the mind long after it is read. Unfairly neglected during his lifetime, only recently has this original, uncompromising novelist started to be reappraised as among the finest novelists writing in English in the 20th century.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781847490063 |
Publisher: | Oneworld Classics |
Imprint: | Oneworld Classics |
Pub date: | 01 Apr 2007 |
Edition: | New Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.912 |
DEWEY edition: | 22 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 204 |
Weight: | 254g |
Height: | 198mm |
Width: | 128mm |
Spine width: | 18mm |