{"product_id":"9781784878757","title":"Caliban Shrieks","description":"Author(s): Hilton, Jack, \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003eDate of Publication: 07\/03\/2024, \u003cbr\u003ePagination: 208 pages, \u003cbr\u003eSeries: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Vintage Classics, \u003cbr\u003e Published By: Vintage Publishing, \u003cbr\u003eBook Classification: Modern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 209 x 136 x 20mm\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 280g\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781784878757\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICKCaliban Shrieks’ narrator went 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. He was 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 unfolded in the post-war years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA story 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLost 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Witty and unusual' George Orwell'Magnificent' W H Auden\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45338254213357,"sku":"9781784878757","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/files\/9781784878757_b1d19be3-f36c-437c-997b-35f44b52c890.jpg?v=1730820094","url":"https:\/\/steyningbookshop.info\/products\/9781784878757","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}