A Kestrel For a Knave(with a New Afterword) (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics S.) - Softcover
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The 1960s was the decade of social revolution, anti-war protests, liberal reforms, civil rights and psychedelia. Skirts got shorter and hair got longer, London swung, the Berlin Wall went up, a man walked on the moon, the Beatles and the Rolling Stones reigned and England even won the world cup.
Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave was published in 1968. One of those rare crossover books lovd by adults and children alike, it later became a widely admired film. Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief time, he finds one pleasure in life: a wild kestrel that he has raised and tamed himself.
With a new introduction by Ian Macmillan
Barry Hines was born in the mining village of Holyland Common, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. On leaving grammar school, he worked as an apprentice mining surveyor and as a footballer before studying and teaching PE and finally becoming a writer.He has written for television and is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Literature and an Honorary Fellow of Sheffield Hallam University. His most recent novel is Elvis Over England.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0141181397
- ISBN 13 9780141181394
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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