Description
London.
The Swing Sixties.
Welocme to the manor.
Meet Harry Starks: club owner, racketeer, porn king, sociology graduate and keen Judy Garland fan. There is a business like showbusiness – it’s what Harry does. Fronting violence with rough charm and cheap glamour; performing menace while trying to jump the counter into legitimacy.
‘This gangster novel set (mainly) in sixties London is one of the smartest, funniest and original novels you will read all year. It is a gloriously accomplished re-creation of the city in the era of the Kray Twins when aristocratic politicians mixed freely with gangsters, rent boys and actresses of dubious repute in a decadent demi-monde. Arnott is quite brilliant at excavating the cultural minutiae of the time to bring the period vividly to life’ Independent on Sunday
‘The Long Firm managed to hook you from the first. It is compulsive reading, powerful writing with an evocative feel for the bleaker side of the Swinging Sixties’ The Times
‘Gripping…slumming it doesn’t get much better than this’ Time Out
Paperback, 343pages. In excellent preloved condition.
Book Condition: In excellent preloved condition. First Edition. 1st edition, 1st printing paperback original. Book with no inscriptions. Not a book club edition, ex library or a remainder.