{"product_id":"lowlife-faber-editions-the","title":"Lowlife (Faber Editions), The","description":"Never 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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''Terrific.'' Sebastian Faulks","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456198181211,"sku":"9780571393473","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/lowlife-faber-editions-the","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}