EAN: 9780571393473

BARON ALEXANDER THE LOWLIFE

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.   "Never give up hope before the dogs
have crossed the finishing-line."     Harryboy 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. A 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.    "Terrific." - Sebastian Faulks

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