One never asks is it a novel, wrote John Cheever in 1977. One asks is it interesting. Definitely not a novel...but definitely very interesting is Jack Hilton's 1935 book Caliban Shrieks.
His faith in politics to fix things was already exhausted...experiences life in the vagrancy ward, where poverty-stricken citizens break stones for their keep. There's an Orwell-like quality to the subject, but what's entirely absent is Orwell's windowpane of clear prose.
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