Caliban Shrieks: The ‘breathless and dizzying’ rediscovered classic novel

By: Jack Hilton

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Synopsis: 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 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.A 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.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.'Witty and unusual' George Orwell'Magnificent' W H Auden

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781529926033
Related ISBNs:: 9781784878757, 9781784878764
Publisher:: Vintage Publishing
Date of Addition:: 03/07/24
Copyrighted By:: Andrew McMillan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: History, Military, Biographies and Memoirs, Literature and Fiction
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.