THE GILT KID
- Authors
- Curtis, James
- Publisher
- London Books
- Tags
- crime
- ISBN
- 9780955185120
- Date
- 1936-01-01T08:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.24 MB
- Lang
- en
The first of a trilogy of novels by the undeservedly obscure James Curtis, whose works rivalled those of his contemporaries Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood. Curtis, after a middle class upbringing, embraced leftist politics and turned to the underworld, writing novels about criminals, prostitutes, and boxers. After the 1930s he began a slide into obscurity, and today is one of British literatures great 'missing persons.'