T. Kent Morgan wrote:
I also managed to find
the DVD with the same photo of Caine in a discount store in
the Doncaster city centre. In the film, the setting is moved
from Doncaster to Newcastle.
Actually the book is set in the even bleaker and smaller town
of Scunthorpe (a town whose name has a hard time getting past
Internet obscenity filters), Doncaster is just a stop on the
journey
The original book under the
title of Jack Return's Home was published by Michael Joseph
in Great Britain in 1970. I have never come across a copy of
the book with the original title in either England or Canada.
I have found PBs of two other Lewis books, Billy Rags and
Jack Carter and the Mafia Pigeon that were published in PB by
Sphere Books in the UK in the late1970s. Found both at
hospital book sales in Winnipeg, not in the UK. Maybes omeone
like John Williams could jump in, but my feeling is that the
Lewis books aren't that easy to find in used bookstores in
England.
I have a Michael Joseph Jack's Return Home, lucky me, so can
attest to its existence. There was also an 80s pb reissue by
Robinson that kept the original title. As for finding Lewis
books now, the originals are very scarce and the 90s reissues
going fast. There are copies still available via amazon.co.uk
of most of them, but I'd advise anyone interested to pick
them up sooner rather than later.
John
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