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Barry Hines - Head Work

by David Forrest, Sue Vice

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This is the first full-length critical study of Barry Hines's writing. Hines's novel A Kestrel for a Knave (1968), adapted for the screen as Kes, is one of the best-known and well-loved novels of the post-war period, while his screenplay for the television drama Threads is central to this compelling Cold War-era vision of nuclear attack. But Hines published a further eight novels and nine screenplays between the late 1960s and late 1990s, as well as writing eleven other works which remain unpublished and unperformed. This study examines the entirety of Hines's work, arguing that he used a great variety of aesthetic forms to represent the lives of working-class people in Britain, through the permissive 1960s, hopeful 1970s and Thatcherite 1980s into the post-industrial conclusion of the twentieth century. The authors argue that, as well as his literary flair for poetic realism, Hines's authorial contributions to the films of his novels show the profoundly collaborative nature of these works.
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Sue Vice is Professor of English Literature at the University of Sheffield

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