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'A breathlessly good read, as funny, relevant and resonant at it was thirty years ago' --Literary Review
'Peopled by a fast-talking shower of queens, spades, morries, slags, shysters, grifters and grafters of every description, it is one of the great London novels' --New Statesman
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I MUST warn you that everything that follows emanates from the following figure: sacked from the most super public school in the country at the age of sixteen. Read the first page
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The Crust on Its Uppers is not his best work (for that I would recommend the Factory series of novels (most of which appear to be out of print, but can be found on bibliofind) which feature a cynical detective working in the Department of Unexplained Deaths).
However, this book is still much finer than most things you will pick off the shelf of a bookstore today. The central characters are public school boys ("morries") who feel the world owes them a living because their background makes them superior to those around them. In fact, they are nasty, shallow characters who progress from bent gambling, through fraud to international crime. Their arrogance and misplaced snobbery make them even more unlikeable, which is exactly Raymond's style.
The characters who flit in and out of the pages of this book are well observed (almost certainly from the life in London pubs) and credible members of the criminal demi-monde.
Raymond is a serious literary novelist who happens to set his novels against crime backgrounds. He should be held up as an example of the writer's craft to any modern author.
You will enjoy this book and remember it long after you read it.
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