Born into a mining family in a South Yorkshire mining village, Barry Hines (1939–2016) worked first in a coal mine before going to college, working as a teacher, and then becoming a full-time writer of fiction and screenplays for film and television. Hines is best known for A Kestrel for a Knave, a novel that has never been out of print in the UK and was filmed by Ken Loach as Kes.
Billy Casper lleva una existencia llena de privaciones. Vive en una casa obrera en una ciudad minera del sur de Yorkshire con su medio hermano, Jud, un borracho brutal y violento, y con su madre, que cambia constantemente de novio y que carece del más mínimo instinto maternal. En...
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