Boy (Oneworld Classics)
James Hanleywas born in Liverpool to Irish immigrants and left school at an early age to become a sailor. His experiences at sea informed many of his works, includingBoy, a novel so controversial that it was only published in a limited, expurgated edition, and subsequently tried for obscenity. Unfairly neglected during his lifetime, only recently has this original, uncompromising novelist started to be reappraised as one of the finest English writers of the 20th century.