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Charts the short and brutish life of a boy forced out of school and into the unforgiving world of work. Escape - in the form of stowing away on a ship - only deepens his exposure to the squalor and brutality that men are capable of, and when he arrives in Alexandria he learns there are some things that one can't run away from.
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Charts the short & brutish life of a boy forced out of school & into the unforgiving world of work. Escape
- in the form of stowing away on a ship
- only deepens his exposure to the squalor & brutality that men are capable of, & when he arrives in Alexandria he learns there are some things that one can't run away from.

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