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The Rabbit

by Ted Lewis
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Reminiscent of the work of American writers J.D. Salinger and Henry Roth, The Rabbit is Ted Lewis’s (Get Carter) most autobiographical work and an emotionally complex portrait of what it was to come of age in post-war England
It is the late 1950s and Victor Graves is an art school student whose father manages a rock quarry not far from their home in Lincolnshire. He is the apple of his mother’s eye, but Victor’s dad thinks his son takes for granted the life he provides. He sets Victor up to work in the quarry for the summer holiday, breaking rocks to harvest flint.
It is in the quarry that the thin, awkward Victor meets Clacker. Tattooed and sinewy, Clacker swings the rock hammer all day and by night kits out in Teddy boy trappings for long bouts of carousing. For Victor he epitomizes masculinity.
Yet the always glib Clacker refuses to accept Victor. Desperate to prove himself, the sensitive Victor begins to spend more time in pubs and picking fights. Everything begins to unravel after a disturbing incident at work sends Victor on a dangerous downward spiral.
Though known best as one of Britain’s most important crime writers, Ted Lewis had the soul of a poet. This powerfully emotional novel is a moving portrait of small town life—the pubs and the people, the workaday life—as seen by a young man navigating through the cultural and sexual confusion of 1950s England.
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Publisher: Soho Press

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  • Release date: October 20, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9780984212569
  • File size: 2053 KB
  • Release date: October 20, 2015

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  • ISBN: 9780984212569
  • File size: 2053 KB
  • Release date: October 20, 2015

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Fiction Literature Historical Fiction

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English

Reminiscent of the work of American writers J.D. Salinger and Henry Roth, The Rabbit is Ted Lewis’s (Get Carter) most autobiographical work and an emotionally complex portrait of what it was to come of age in post-war England
It is the late 1950s and Victor Graves is an art school student whose father manages a rock quarry not far from their home in Lincolnshire. He is the apple of his mother’s eye, but Victor’s dad thinks his son takes for granted the life he provides. He sets Victor up to work in the quarry for the summer holiday, breaking rocks to harvest flint.
It is in the quarry that the thin, awkward Victor meets Clacker. Tattooed and sinewy, Clacker swings the rock hammer all day and by night kits out in Teddy boy trappings for long bouts of carousing. For Victor he epitomizes masculinity.
Yet the always glib Clacker refuses to accept Victor. Desperate to prove himself, the sensitive Victor begins to spend more time in pubs and picking fights. Everything begins to unravel after a disturbing incident at work sends Victor on a dangerous downward spiral.
Though known best as one of Britain’s most important crime writers, Ted Lewis had the soul of a poet. This powerfully emotional novel is a moving portrait of small town life—the pubs and the people, the workaday life—as seen by a young man navigating through the cultural and sexual confusion of 1950s England.
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Soho Press

    Kindle Book
    Release date: October 20, 2015

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780984212569
    File size: 2053 KB
    Release date: October 20, 2015

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780984212569
    File size: 2053 KB
    Release date: October 20, 2015

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English