James Hanley was born in Liverpool to Irish immigrants and left school at an early age to become a sailor. His experiences at sea informed many of his works, including Boy, a novel so controversial that it was only published in a limited, expurgated edition, and subsequently tried for obscenity. Unfairly neglected during his lifetime, only recently has this original, uncompromising novelist started to be /5(10). Genre. Born in Kirkdale, Liverpool, in (not Dublin, nor as he generally implied) to a working-class family, Hanley probably left school in and worked as a clerk, before going to sea in at the age of 17 (not 13 as he again implied). Thus life at sea was a formative influence and much of his early writing is about seamen/5(72). Boy | To escape a brutal life on the Liverpool docks, a boy runs away to sea Arthur Fearon is nearly thirteen, and in the eyes of the law, that makes him a man. He wants to study to become a chemist, but his family cannot afford for him to continue school.
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James Hanley was born in Liverpool to Irish immigrants and left school at an early age to become a sailor. His experiences at sea informed many of his works, including Boy, a novel so controversial that it was only published in a limited, expurgated edition, and subsequently tried for obscenity. Unfairly neglected during his lifetime, only recently has this original, uncompromising novelist started to be reappraised as one of the finest English writers of the 20th century. Boy: A Novel by James Hanley. NOOK Book (eBook - Digital Original) $ $ Save 5% Current price is $, Original price is $ You Save 5%. Sign in to. Boy: A Novel, by James Hanley ***-**** Posted on Ma by seattlebookmama stars, and my thanks go to Net Galley and Open Road Integrated Media for the DRC.
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