A Low Breed
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Spine is sun faded, minor chipping to edges of DJ, tanning and light foxing to page edges.
A razor-sharp and irreverent portrait of human folly, A Low Breed by Joseph Johnson strips away social pretension to expose the raw, comic underbelly of human relationships and desire. Set against a backdrop of bold, caricatured personalities, the novel chronicles the misadventures of characters whose ambitions, appetites, and vanities collide in spectacular and often absurd fashion, painting a wickedly satirical picture of a society obsessed with status and gratification. Johnson writes with a sardonic wit and an unsparing eye, dissecting the moral contradictions of his characters with surgical precision and darkly comic flair. Rooted in the tradition of British and American satirical fiction, A Low Breed presents a world where dignity is always negotiable and hypocrisy reigns supreme — leaving the reader to wonder, with gleeful unease, just which of these low breeds they recognise most in themselves.
Author: Joseph Johnson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Nelson
Genre: Fiction
Edition: First Edition Thus
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Condition remarks: Spine is sun faded, minor chipping to edges of DJ, tanning and light foxing to page edges.
A razor-sharp and irreverent portrait of human folly, A Low Breed by Joseph Johnson strips away social pretension to expose the raw, comic underbelly of human relationships and desire. Set against a backdrop of bold, caricatured personalities, the novel chronicles the misadventures of characters whose ambitions, appetites, and vanities collide in spectacular and often absurd fashion, painting a wickedly satirical picture of a society obsessed with status and gratification. Johnson writes with a sardonic wit and an unsparing eye, dissecting the moral contradictions of his characters with surgical precision and darkly comic flair. Rooted in the tradition of British and American satirical fiction, A Low Breed presents a world where dignity is always negotiable and hypocrisy reigns supreme — leaving the reader to wonder, with gleeful unease, just which of these low breeds they recognise most in themselves.