“Working-class males feel they are treated like scum by those in power” – John King Interviewed

The author of Human Punk and The Football Factory trilogy speaks to Tariq Goddard about class, Greek prisons and his new novella Peekaboo Bosh John’s King’s The Football Factory was a novel for people who thought reading might not be for them, the power of those first discomforting pages as transportive as waking up in the Gulag with Solzhenitsyn or thumbing a lift with Kerouac. Beginning in the mind of a character literary fiction had taken care to avoid, the novel explored a sensibility that had traditionally been the province of pulp, its portraits as fully realised those found in McEwan or Barnes, but with none of that pair’s decorative courtesy or insistence that lead personae ought to be middle-class professionals…. The post “Working-class males feel they are treated like scum by those in power” – John King Interviewed appeared first on The Quietus.