{"product_id":"the-lowlife","title":"The Lowlife","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'A novel and author richly deserving of renewed attention.'--Kirkus starred review ⭐\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever give up hope before the dogs have crossed the finishing-line.\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA 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\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53849033343314,"sku":"9780571393473","price":14.9,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_9775b06d-d31f-4117-9087-665ada6c346f.jpg?v=1782501133","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-lowlife","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}