Modern Classics Kestrel for a Knave

by Barry Hines and Barry; David Howe (Illust. ) & Frank Cottrell-Boyce (Intro. ) Hines

Book Overview

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave contains a new afterword by the author in Penguin Modern Classics.

Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a troubled teenager growing up in the small Yorkshire mining town of Barnsley. Treated as a failure at school, and unhappy at home, Billy discovers a new passion in life when he finds Kes, a kestrel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141184981
• ISBN13: 9780141184982
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Penguin Classic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"