Gilt Kid - BRILLIANT NEW EDITION OF RARE NOVEL!

Curtis, James - FIRST PRINTING THUS

ISBN 10: 0955185122 / ISBN 13: 9780955185120

Edité par London Books, 2007

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First edition, first impression of this great thriller, by the undeservedly neglected James Curtis. This intensely vernacular novel deserves to be up there with those of his contemporaries Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood. Curtis, like so many with his middle class upbringing, embraced leftist politics in the 30s and he began writing novels about criminals, prostitutes, and boxers, almost as an attempt to understand or justify the underworld of crime. After the 1930s he disappeared, and today is one of literatures neglected but very worthwhile authors. These novels are hugely expensive in their original first editions, and this attractive new issue is a welcome chance to read this man again. Additionally, this has a worthwhile introduction from Paul Willetts that places this superb novel into context. Protected jacket, unread looking book, utterly collectable if you can't afford the 1930s original! Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Gilt Kid - BRILLIANT NEW EDITION OF RARE NOVEL!
• Éditeur: London Books
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0955185122
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780955185120
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine

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Synopsis

James Curtis belongs to a tradition of novelists, Patrick Hamilton among them, whose left-wing politics shapes not only their lives but also their fiction. Curtis used his plots to highlight the unfairness of society and dearth of opportunity that all too often leads people to break the law. The Gilt Kid (first published in 1936) focuses on a convicted burglar and Communist sympathiser, freshly realeased from prison who wastes little time in plunging back to the London underworld, a milieu that few writers have depicted with such empathy and clarity. This new edition includes an introduction by Paul Willetts.

À propos de l'auteur

James Curtis (1907-1977) was a successful British author whose 1930s low-life novels They Drive By Night and Their Aint No Justice were made in to feature films.

Curtis used his plots to highlight the unfairness of society and dearth of opportunity that often led people to break the law in those straitened times. The second world war interrupted his career and his literary momentum never recovered.

James Curtis was a psuedonym. He was born on July 4, 1907 in Sturry, Kent and was registered as Geoffrey Basil Maiden. His parents were hoteliers in India and later in England where Geoffrey attended King's School, Canterbury. During the war he served in France and Burma and rose to the rank of major. After the war his marriage had failed and his literary output was sparse. He died in north London in 1977 after suffering a heart attack in a chemist shop.