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"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.

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"Boy has retained the capacity to disturb... not as pornography, but as a period piece of angry realism... its horrors stay with the reader." -- Zoë Heller

"Painfully honest and direct... the horror of the situation grips from cover to cover." -- The Financial Times

"Powerful and moving... Hanley's brilliance is to shock us whatever our level of sophistication... The reader's consciousness is seared by the experience." -- The Evening Standard

"The story is quite shattering in its impact." -- The Independent

"This novel has retained its power to shock... it is, quite simply, one of the bleakest books ever written... the raw power of Hanley's language prohibits the entry of even one small ray of light... Boy is unbearably affecting." -- Nick Hornby
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Unique edition of one of the masterpieces of twenty-century English Literature. A rediscovered British author who has been compared to Hardy, Conrad, D.H. Lawrence and William Faulkner.

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  • PublisherOneworld Classics Ltd
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1847490069
  • ISBN 13 9781847490063
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages300
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