{"product_id":"the-lowlife-9780571393473","title":"The Lowlife","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNever give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA celebrated cult classic, \u003ci\u003eThe Lowlife \u003c\/i\u003ebrilliantly 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Terrific.'' \u003c\/b\u003eSebastian Faulks\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018308944215,"sku":"9780571393473","price":9.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780571393473.jpg?v=1750776378","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-lowlife-9780571393473","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}