{"product_id":"9781784878764","title":"Caliban Shrieks by Jack Hilton","description":"Witty and unusual' George Orwell'Magnificent' W H AudenA 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.   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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54926327841141,"sku":"9781784878764","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784878764.jpg?v=1736945574","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784878764","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}