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Hero of the Underworld

Hero of the Underworld

by JimmyBoyle (Author)

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    Paperback 1999

    $3.36
Synopsis

After ten hard years inside, Hero is out. Released into a mystifying and dangerous world of small time crooks, bad jobs and sleazy accommodation, he slowly starts to fight back. Hero leads a gang of ex-mental health patients-Lockjaw, Bonecrusher and Sligo-in a stand against the might of the underworld. His outlandish plans to thwart his persecutors escalate from stealing a prize bull, to grand theft, and on to the most dangerous heist in town. By the end, Hero will either be free at last, or six feet under. "Hero of the Underworld" is a darkly humorous, uplifting tale of redemption.
Jimmy Boyle was born in 1944 and raised in the Gorbals, a notorious project of Glasgow. He embarked on a life of crime, eventually being sentenced at the age of twenty-three for a murder he did not commit. In prison, he took up art and since his release in 1982 has become a sculptor of world repute. "The Hard Man, " a musical based on Jimmy Boyle's life will open on Broadway in spring 2001.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 224
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 04 Feb 1999
ISBN 10: 185242608X
ISBN 13: 9781852426088

Media Reviews
?By turns shocking, passionate, uplifting and very funny... Boyle can boast an undoubted ability as a storyteller of imagination and power? Independent ?A grimly humorous tale...more gristle than a cheap meat pie? Esquire ?Baroque low-life, Hieronymous Bosch-like imagery, and sardonic existential humour, Boyle is like a modern Dante crossed with Derek Raymond. He should be made welcome? Time Out
Author Bio
Jimmy Boyle was born in 1944 and raised in Glasgow's notorious Gorbals area. His early years were spent in the grip of the Gorbals' culture and he embarked on a life of crime, eventually being sentenced to life in prison at the age of twenty-three for a murder he did not commit. The brutality of the prison regime is graphically described in his two autobiographies, A Sense of Freedom, which was also made into a film, and The Pain of Confinement. Since his release in 1982 Jimmy Boyle has founded and worked for Gateway Exchange, a centre to help young people at risk.