A Kestrel for a Knave
$32.09
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
19 November 2004
Summary
With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines’s A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. B…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141184982 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141184981 |
| Author: | Barry Hines |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 19 November 2004 |
| Weight: | 166g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 13mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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About The Author
Barry Hines
Barry Hines was born in the mining village of Hoyland Common, near Barnsley, South Yorkshire. Educated at Eccelsfield Grammar School, Hines then worked as an apprentice mining surveyor and played football for Barnsley before studying Physical Education at Loughborough Training College. He taught for several years in London and Yorkshire before becoming a full-time writer. Hines has written 8 other novels and television scripts.
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