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Love on the Dole (Paperback)

by Walter Greenwood (Author)

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (17 Jun 1993)
Language English
ISBN-10: 009922481X
ISBN-13: 978-0099224815
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 1.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

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...novel...stands very high, but it is in its qualities as a 'social document' that its great value lies

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In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbroker, bullied by petty officials and living in constant fear of the dole queue and the Means Test. His love affair with a local girl ends in a shotgun marriage, and, disowned by his family, Harry is tempted by crime. Sally, meanwhile, falls in love with Larry Meath, a self-educated Marxist. But Larry is a sick man and there are other more powerful rivals for her affection. The definitive deception of a northern town in the midst of the thirties' depression. Walter Greenwood's "Love on the Dole" was the first novel to be set against a background of mass unemployment and was instantly recognised as a classic when it was first published in 1933. Raw, violent and powerful, it was a cry of outrage that stirred the national conscience in the same way as the Jarrow march.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Gritty realism from depression era Salford, 5 Mar 2001

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Love on the Dole, published in 1933, was Walter Greenwood's first novel and has never been out of print since. Written on scraps of paper as he tramped the streets looking for work, it has since been made into a film, a play and a musical. Set in Hanky Park, a fictional area of Salford during the depression, the novel was the literary bombshell of its day and the prototype for the 'kitchen sink' school of writing. The gritty realism he depicts of clogged rows of back-to-back houses, pawnshops, gas lights and debt, louse ridden people reveals Greenwoods's burning desire to document the social injustices of the time. He is probably the only English novelist since Dickens who was able to combine true mass appeal with passionate radicalism and bitterly honest documentation with writing of high artistic quality. What makes this book a classic, however, is that simple but elusive art of telling a good story and getting the characters right. The book combines personal documentation and outrage with storylines and situations that belong to the novels of the romantic era. Harry and Sally Hardcastle are growing up in grinding poverty but Sally sees a way out by taking up with local crook Sam Grundy. This beauty and the beast relationship is interwoven with that of Larry Meath, our gallant but doomed hero. Everyone who passes in and out of the storyline, from pawnbrokers to petty officials, are all described in convincing everyday detail and all display universal attitudes and fundamental choices. In Love on the Dole, Walter Greenwood eloquently and amusingly depicts an era that is alien to us today. But in our society of mass consumerism and full supermarket shelves it is too easy to forget that not that long ago people did not even have the means to feed themselves. These injustices should not be forgotten and the book should be required reading for all schoolchildren.

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3.0 out of 5 stars not the best edition, 13 Nov 2006

By	Kathleen Bell (U.K,) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The book is wonderful and should be read. Unfortunately the Vintage edition omits the epigraphs at the beginning which indicate the novel's revolutionary analysis of society. Students buying this edition need to find an older edition and photocopy the relevant page - or, better still, look for a second-hand Penguin copy instead.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Love on the Dole, 23 Jul 2007

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Written in the 1930s, this is a classic tale of the oppressed masses. Greenwood weaves his tale starting with the unsullied hope and enthusiasm of youth, gradually eroded into the pessimism brought by a relentless scrape to survive.

The message of this book is subtly ambiguous, suggesting happily ever after but also weighing heavily the cost of that ending, both in life and ideology.

Greenwood writes of an ongoing struggle, as pertinent today as it was in the 1930s. He writes of the struggle itself and of the impact on the ordinary person and not of what should be done. This latter is left for the reader to ponder.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Working class life between the wars
This is one of the best novels I have read in recent years. As an insight into working class life it stands alongside landmark fiction and non-fiction from the era (e.g. Read more

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3.0 out of 5 stars Love on the Dole
Story which details the hardships of life in the early 20th century in Manchester. A good slice of social history

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good review of 1930s
This was on my reading list for university, and I am glad I picked it.

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Published 13 months ago by Ms. K. Marsh

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent edition of a fab play!
The best edition of "Love on the Dole" I've found, unless you're studying it for school. This is an actors edition- no commentry, no questions, nothing to think about- just the... Read more

Published on 19 May 2003 by Ms. C. L. Parkinson

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