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Ingilterenin kuzeyinde, kücük ve yoksul bir madenci kasabasinda yasayan on bes yasindaki Billy Casper icin hayat zorluklarla doludur. Babasinin yillar önce terk ettigi evleri, annesinin ilgisizligi ve agabeyinin zorbaliklariyla daha da mutsuz bir yer haline gelmistir. Gittigi erkek okulunun sert ortami ve yasadigi kasabanin onun yasindaki birine madende calismak disinda hicbir gelecek sunmamasi da eklenir buna. Ancak Billy zekasi ve inadiyla h...

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First US publication of this unsentimental, sympathetic novel of the unemployed young in Thatcher's Britain. From Barry Hines, writer of A Kestrel for a Knave and The Gamekeeper>The author's unerring eye for detail and ear for dialogue are utterly engaging and evocative. Looks and Smiles is a gritty and poignant bulletin from a forgotten period of British history. A Barry Hines classic.ines classic.

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Splendid new version" (The Times) of the well-known film and novel--a bestseller for over thirty years.

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 hawk.

Billy Casper is a boy with nowhere to go and nothing to say, part of the limbo generation of school leavers too old for lessons and too young to know anything about the outside world. He hates and is hated. His family and friends are mean and tough and they're sure he's going to end up in big trouble.

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Barry Hines was born near Barnsley, Yorkshire, in 1939 and was a promising footballer before taking a teaching qualification at Loughborough. He taught PE in London and in Yorkshire before writing full time. He has written nine novels, and co-wrote the screenplay of Kes with Ken Loach. He lives in Yorkshire.

Billy Casper is beaten by his drunken brother, ignored by his mother and failing at school. He seems destined for a hard, miserable life down the pits, but for a brief time, he finds one pleasure in life: a wild kestrel that he has raised and tamed himself.