Lowlife

Harryboy Boas is a gambling man - the dogs. He lives in the quietly respectable streets of Hackney and keeps himself to himself. Until, that is, a new family moves into his building. Step by step, the ordered, if faintly disreputable and financially rackety, life he has led begins slowly to unravel. [...]
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Harryboy Boas is a gambling man - the dogs. He lives in the quietly respectable streets of Hackney and keeps himself to himself. Until, that is, a new family moves into his building. Step by step, the ordered, if faintly disreputable and financially rackety, life he has led begins slowly to unravel. He is drawn into a murky underworld where violence and revenge are the inevitable payback for those who can't come up with the money. A brilliant portrayal of a way of life in its last days in the 1960s, the wideboy East End Jewish gambler whose nouveau-riche north London relations regard him as both liability and embarrassment.