Query: Novels not set in the 1930s that are about poverty
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
So Big (novel)
Hunger (Hamsun novel)
Monkey Island (book)
Junk (novel)
Stone Cold (Swindells novel)
Apartment (novel)
The Family Under the Bridge
Ripley Bogle
A Child of the Jago
Evidence from documents: Hunger (Hamsun novel): Written after Hamsun's return from an ill-fated tour of America, ''Hunger'' is loosely based on the author's own impoverished life before his breakthrough in 1890.
Monkey Island (book): '''''Monkey Island''''' is a 1991 children's novel by Paula Fox. It deals with family breakdown and homelessness.
Junk (novel): '''''Junk''''', known as '''''Smack''''' in the US, is a realistic novel for young adults, written by British author Melvin Burgess and published in 1996 by Andersen in the UK. Set on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teenagers who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism. Both critically and commercially, it is the best received of Burgess' novels. Yet it was unusually controversial at first, criticised negatively for its 'how-to' aspect, or its dark realism, or its moral relativism.
Stone Cold (Swindells novel): Link, a newly-homeless young man adjusting to his situation, and Shelter, an ex-army officer scorned after being dismissed from his job, supposedly on "medical grounds".
Apartment (novel): The story is set in 1996
The Family Under the Bridge: '''''The Family Under the Bridge''''' is a seasonal children's novel by Natalie Savage Carlson published in 1958. It received a Newbery Honor Award.
In the early 1900s a Parisian hobo named Armand dislikes children; but after meeting three children, Suzy, Evelyn, and Paul and their mother – he reluctantly allows them to share his space under a bridge in Paris during the Christmas season. Their ingenuity and talent helps them feed themselves, and he soon becomes attached to the children and determines to provide a home for them. Eventually, he becomes a hardworking man.
Ripley Bogle: Many elements of the novel are autobiographical; the author himself was born in Belfast, attended Cambridge University, dropped out and became homeless.
A Child of the Jago: about poverty: A bestseller in its time, it recounts the brief life of Dicky Perrott, a child growing up in the "Old Jago", a fictionalisation of the Old Nichol, a slum located between Shoreditch High Street and Bethnal Green Road in the East End of London.
Novels: '''''A Child of the Jago''''' is an 1896 novel by Arthur Morrison.