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In the cafés and rented rooms of interwar Europe, a restless young Englishman drifts among painters, poets, wanderers, and lovers, chasing art, freedom, and the glamour of a life lived on the edge. From Berlin's smoky bohemian circles to the hard roads south and the hungry brilliance of Paris, Hobohemians follows a world of failed schemes, shifting loyalties and dangerous illusions.By turns witty, raw and melancholy, this forgotten 1930s novella captures the fever of youth without money, the seduction of artistic life and the loneliness that shadows both. Peopled by expatriates, hustlers, dreamers and survivors, Hobohemians is a vivid portrait of a lost generation trying to make beauty out of uncertainty.

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""In crisp staccato phrase, Mr Philip Owens in Hobohemians sketches the raw realism of the polyglot Bohemia of Paris, its puling swirl of poverty and passion and abandoned discipline."" - Belfast News-Letter, 1929""Hobohemians is entirely modern in subject and manner-impressionistic sketches of penurious artists in Germany and Paris. It is a clever study..."" - Aberdeen Press and Journal, 1930

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