W.H. Allen, London. 1981. First U.K. edition. A novel of the low-life. Mis-spelling of ''Kerouac'' in the dustwrapper blurb.

Henry Chinaski, an outcast, a loner and a hopeless drunk, drifts around America from one dead-end job to another, from one woman to another and from one bottle to the next. Uncompromising, gritty, comical and confessional in turn, his downward spiral is peppered with black humour.