'Witty and unusual' George Orwell
'Magnificent' W H Auden
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" - Guardian
"Equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant… [Caliban Shrieks] contains an energy that drives the reader on" - Observer
"A powerful, uncompromising account of working class life… [which] deserves reading and rereading" - Socialist Worker
"A sharp and compelling work of literary modernism… Caliban Shrieks…speak powerfully to our own time" - Morning Star
"A singular book in both tone and structure... Hilton’s prose carries the twin forces of indignation and adverse experience" - The New Yorker
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'Magnificent' W H Auden
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" - Guardian
"Equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant… [Caliban Shrieks] contains an energy that drives the reader on" - Observer
"A powerful, uncompromising account of working class life… [which] deserves reading and rereading" - Socialist Worker
"A sharp and compelling work of literary modernism… Caliban Shrieks…speak
"A singular book in both tone and structure... Hilton’s prose carries the twin forces of indignation and adverse experience" - The New Yorker
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