Boy - Couverture souple

Hanley, James

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847490069 ISBN 13 : 9781847490063

Editeur : Oneworld Classics Ltd, 2007

Synopsis

Book by Hanley James

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

"Oneworld Classics" will include the greatest masterpieces of all time, from every literature and genre and will also redefine and enrich the classics canon by promoting unjustly neglected works of enduring significance. Acclaimed by luminaries such as William Faulkner, supressed for more than fifty 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 twentieth century.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Born in Liverpool to Irish immigrants, James Hanley left school at an early age to become a sailor. His experiences at sea informed many of his works, including Boy, a novel so controversial that it was only published in a limited, expurgated edition, and subsequently tried for obscenity. Unfairly neglected during his lifetime, only recently has this original, uncompromising novelist started to be reappraised as one of the finest English novelists of the twentieth century.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Classics Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1847490069
• ISBN 13: 9781847490063
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204