Gilt Kid

'The Gilt Kid', first published in 1936, focuses on a convicted burglar and Communist sympathiser, freshly released from prison, but Curtis's protagonist isn't the stereotypical ex-con struggling to keep on the straight and narrow. Instead, he wastes little time in plunging back into the London unde [...]
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'The Gilt Kid', first published in 1936, focuses on a convicted burglar and Communist sympathiser, freshly released from prison, but Curtis's protagonist isn't the stereotypical ex-con struggling to keep on the straight and narrow. Instead, he wastes little time in plunging back into the London underworld, a milieu that few writers have depicted with such conviction, empathy and sensual clarity.