Caliban Shrieks
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Sell my copyAuthor: Jack Hilton
Title: Caliban Shrieks
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 192
Release Date: 0000-00-00
Details: A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature
WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICK
From a childhood of poverty, yet joy and freedom, to the punishing grind of factory life and the idiocy of being sent blindly into war, Caliban Shrieks' narrator takes readers on a lyrical tour of life as a young man born into the first days of the 20th century.
Turned out of the army a vagrant - seeing England from city to city, county to county - before being thrust back into an uncertain cycle of working life as it unfolds in the post-war years, Caliban Shrieks was Jack Hilton's invitation to enter the whirlwind of an existence rarely seen in the literature of his day. A novel of men and women lost, wandering - and angrily dreaming of a better, fairer England, Hilton's autobiographical novel is a bold modernist retelling of the myth of how we find ourselves disenfranchised from the world and sold into a slavery of our making.
Lost to time, only to be rediscovered again in the Salford's Working Class Movement Library in 2022, Caliban Shrieks is a working-class masterpiece of British literature, and continues to speak as brash and impassioned as it did on its first rave publication in 1935.
EAN: 9781784878757
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.874 inches, Length: 5.1181 inches, Weight: 0.6172943336 pounds, Width: 1.10236 inches
