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Fowlers End
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Fowlers End by Gerald Kersh, Michael Moorcock
Fowler's End is a bustling, ram-shackle community where bathtubs are considered effete. Daniel Laverock comes to the neighbourhood in search of employment. Thanks to his horrifying countenance, he wins a job as manager of a movie house owned by the vicious tyrant Sam Yudenow.
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Take a tour of the worst parts of north London, moving further and further into the neighbourhoods that most strongly repel you, and you will end up in Fowlers End. This story of a seedy London community in the 1930s was first published in 1958 and is now reprinted with a new introduction by Harvill Press. There are plenty of colourful characters in Fowlers End. The story is told from the point of view of Daniel Laverock, a ferociously ugly, soft-hearted fellow who finds a job managing a flea-bag picture house, owned by local philosopher and show-business entrepreneur Sam Yudenow. Yudenow - a sly, cruel and greedy man - is forever engaging in lengthy, ungrammatical and highly entertaining monologues. The strong dialect takes some getting used to (a glossary of Cockney rhyming slang and colloquialisms is helpfully provided at the beginning of the book), but these verbal outbursts are frequently very funny. As well as Yudenow, a host of other minor characters liven up this world. Along the way, Laverock encounters the likes of Copper Baldwin, Miss Noel, Mr Godbolt and a Cypriot cafe proprietor who makes bombs. Kersh details Leverock's escapades with relish, clearly enjoying the opportunity to create such a stinking, rotten landscape and people it with these outrageous and repulsive folk. Although the dialect of the speech may be difficult to comprehend at first, those who have the stomach for it should enjoy this highly entertaining, comic tale. (Kirkus UK)
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