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- 2000
- year of publication
- 208
- pages
- English (United Kingdom)
- language
- Softcover
- cover
- Publisher
- penguin_classics
- ISBN-13
- 978-01-4118-498-2
- EAN
- 9780141184982
- Publication date
- 2000-05-25
- Book
- A Kestrel for a Knave · 5 editions
The publisher on this edition
Life is tough and cheerless for Billy Casper, a disillusioned teenager growing up in a small Yorkshire mining town. Violence is commonplace and he is frequently cold and hungry. Yet he is determined to be a survivor and when he finds Kes, a kestrel hawk he discovers a passion in life. Billy identifies with her proud silence and she inspired in him the trust and love that nothing else can. Intense and raw and bitingly honest, A Kestrel for a Knave was first published in 1968 and was also made into a highly acclaimed film, Kes , directed by Ken Loach.
