The Read

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Set in a working-class community in Newcastle upon Tyne at the very beginning of the 1960s, `The Day of the Sardine' is a powerful novel of disaffection, which charts a young man's uneasy passage into adulthood. Harsh, and at times comic, the story of its protagonist, Arthur Haggerston, takes place against the background of a young workforce absorbed into tedious, repressive employment where the only outlet comes from street violence and gang warfare.