Jack Hilton

A breathless and dizzying modernist howl of a novel

Equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant… [Caliban Shrieks] contains an energy that drives the reader on

A powerful, uncompromising account of working class life… [which] deserves reading and rereading

A sharp and compelling work of literary modernism… Caliban Shrieks…speak[s] powerfully to our own time

A singular book in both tone and structure... Hilton’s prose carries the twin forces of indignation and adverse experience

A lyrical tour of life as a young working-class man born into the first days of the 20th century, Caliban Shrieks is a lost masterpiece of 1930s British literature. 
 
WITH NEW INTRODUCTIONS BY ANDREW McMILLAN AND JACK CHADWICK 
 
Caliban Shrieks’ narrator went from a childhood of poverty, yet joy and freedom, to the punishing grind of factory life and the idiocy of being sent blindly into war. He was turned out of the army a vagrant - seeing England from city to city, county to county - before being thrust back into an uncertain cycle of working life as it unfolded in the post-war years. 
 
A story of men and women lost, wandering and angrily dreaming of a better, fairer England, Hilton’s autobiographical debut is a bold invitation to enter a whirlwind existence rarely seen in the literature of its era. 
 
Lost to time, only to be rediscovered again in 2022, Caliban Shrieks is a working-class masterpiece of British literature, and continues to speak as brash and impassioned as it did on its first rave publication in 1935. 
 
'Witty and unusual' George Orwell 
 
'Magnificent' W H Auden

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A breathless and dizzying modernist howl of a novel

Equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant… **[Caliban Shrieks] contains an energy that drives the reader on**

A powerful, uncompromising account of working class life… [which] deserves reading and rereading

A breathless and dizzying modernist howl of a novel

Equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant… **[Caliban Shrieks] contains an energy that drives the reader on**

A powerful, uncompromising account of working class life… [which] deserves reading and rereading

A breathless and dizzying modernist howl of a novel

Equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant… **[Caliban Shrieks] contains an energy that drives the reader on**

A powerful, uncompromising account of working class life… [which] deserves reading and rereading

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