{"product_id":"caliban-shrieks-9781784878757","title":"Caliban Shrieks","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, \u003ci\u003eCaliban Shrieks\u003c\/i\u003e is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaliban Shrieks'\u003c\/i\u003e narrator went from a childhood of poverty, yet joy and freedom, to the punishing grind of factory life and the idiocy of being sent blindly into war. He was turned out of the army a vagrant - seeing England from city to city, county to county - before being thrust back into an uncertain cycle of working life as it unfolded in the post-war years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA story of men and women lost, wandering  and angrily dreaming of a better, fairer England, Hilton's autobiographical novel is a bold modernist retelling of the myth of how we find ourselves disenfranchised from the world and sold into a slavery of our making.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLost to time, only to be rediscovered again in the Salford''s Working Class Movement Libra\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48887769694551,"sku":"9781784878757","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781784878757.jpg?v=1722546158","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/caliban-shrieks-9781784878757","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}