![]() ![]() The violence, when it occurs, is as balletic as anything in West Side Story, and the story line is constantly wavering at the very edge of realism. No-one here is the victim of anything other than their own moral limitations. ![]() But this is most definitely not grittily realistic angry-young-man fiction, it's more like a sophisticated, playful parody of its conventions. It is set in a working-class district of South London, and the story is all about factory workers and their bosses, dances, nights at the pub, fights about girls, petty crime, adultery, saving up to get married, sneaking lovers past the landlady, etc., so it's clearly setting itself up as though it's in the same genre as the novels and plays of contemporaries like Alan Sillitoe and Stan Barstow. This is one of Spark's crazier novels, published the year before Miss Jean Brodie. ![]()
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