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The Crust On Its Uppers Derek Raymond

The Crust On Its Uppers By Derek Raymond

The Crust On Its Uppers by Derek Raymond


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Summary

A humorous send-up of class-ridden Britain set in the London of 1960. The hero is a young man recently expelled from one of Britain's most prestigious public schools. Wishing to escape his upper crust background, he finds his niche as a criminal, surrounded by con-men and petty thieves.

The Crust On Its Uppers Summary

The Crust On Its Uppers by Derek Raymond

'It's a tale of someone who wanted to go and go-who was sick of the dead-on-its-feet upper crust he was born into, that he didn't believe in, didn't want, whose values were meaningless, that did nothing but hold him back from his first nanny onwards. I wanted to chip my way out of that background which held me like a flea in a block of ice, and crime was the only chisel I could find.' First published in 1962, The Crust on Its Uppers, Derek Raymond's first novel (written when he was Robin Cook) is a gripping tale of class betrayal. With ruthless precision, it brings vividly to life a Britain of spivs, crooked toffs and bent coppers - in fact, a Britain that in its bare essentials has changed little over the last 30 years.

The Crust On Its Uppers Reviews

?Best place to start is the slangy baroque of the re-issued The Crust On Its Uppers, Raymond?s autobiographical account of the dodgy transactions between high class wide boys and low class villains. You won?t read a better novel about 60s London..? i-D ?Tremendous black comedy of Chelsea gangland, written and set in the early Sixties, on the cusp of swinging London.? The Face ?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

About Derek Raymond

Derek Raymond was born Robin Cook in 1931. His novels include A State of Denmark, The Crust on its Uppers, I Was Dora Suarez and How the Dead Live, which was made into a film. The son of a textile magnate, he dropped out of Eton aged sixteen and spent much of his early career among criminals and was employed at various times as a pornographer, organiser of illegal gambling, money launderer, pig-slaughterer and minicab driver. He died in London in 1994.

Additional information

GOR002053616
9781852422684
1852422688
The Crust On Its Uppers by Derek Raymond
Used - Good
Paperback
Profile Books Ltd
19920815
224
N/A
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