{"product_id":"caliban-shrieks-9781784878757","title":"Caliban Shrieks","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, \u003ci\u003eCaliban Shrieks\u003c\/i\u003e is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICK\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaliban Shrieks'\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLost to time, only to be rediscovered again in the Salford's Working Class Movement Library in 2022, \u003ci\u003eCaliban Shrieks\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Witty and unusual' George Orwell\u003cbr\u003e'Magnificent' W H Auden \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/18\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784878757\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208","brand":"Jack Hilton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44241151656117,"sku":"9781784878757","price":30.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_96a29d91-18a8-4803-a00b-6fe01d4c9149.jpg?v=1717471404","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/caliban-shrieks-9781784878757","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}