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Alexander Baron was a skilled traditionalist, a contriver of plot-driven socially perceptive meditations on place. --Iain Sinclair
Enthralling --The Sunday Times
Enthralling --The Sunday Times
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1911, East London. The police collaborate with racketeers to keep an uneasy peace, periodically broken by violent gang wars. Dido Peach comes to prominence by breaking the unwritten rules of the street. For a brief time he rules the underworld. His fall is sudden and spectacular, shaking even the callous and vicious neighbourhood in which he is trapped. This new edition is introduced by Ken Worpole, author of Dockers and Detectives (Five Leaves), which rekindled interest in Baron and many other important yet overlooked British writers of the 20th century.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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A gripping story, convincing characters and an unusual milieu - the slums of London just before the First World War. The central character becomes an aristocrat of the criminal world not by design, but as a result of a challenge he is impelled to take up. Events unfold inexorably as he rises to power and inevitably falls.
Dido is inarticulate, remote, dispassionate, capable of cruelty and lacking empathy. Yet the reader sympathises with this character and his fate.
The author engages us in Dido's world from the outset. The story is told in simple language, with little elaboration of the basic sequence of events, yet explores timeless themes: destiny and its indifference to our fate, our individual powerlessness, the constraints of our environment and how our lives may be determined by one event.
This book has a ring of authenticity and the setting, characters and the way of life described are utterly convincing.
Dido is inarticulate, remote, dispassionate, capable of cruelty and lacking empathy. Yet the reader sympathises with this character and his fate.
The author engages us in Dido's world from the outset. The story is told in simple language, with little elaboration of the basic sequence of events, yet explores timeless themes: destiny and its indifference to our fate, our individual powerlessness, the constraints of our environment and how our lives may be determined by one event.
This book has a ring of authenticity and the setting, characters and the way of life described are utterly convincing.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I am overjoyed to see this fantastic novel back in print. For some strange reason Baron has been forgotten whilst many lesser writers continue to sell. I long to see readers support this book: only by supporting the brave publication of forgotten gems, can readers ensure we are not submerged beneath a tide of celebrity tittle-tattle and worthless modern 'fashionable' observation. Fans of Baron will be pleased to know that 'From the City From the Plough' is due to be republished in 2010.
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