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
Caliban 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.
"A breathless and dizzying modernist howl of a novel" – Andrew McMillan, The Guardian
"Equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant… [Caliban Shrieks] contains an energy that drives the reader on" – Observer
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- Authors:
- Hilton, Jack
- Year Published:
- 2024
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781784878757
- Number of Pages:
- 208
- Publication Date:
- 07/03/2024
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- SKU:
- 9781784878757