The Underclass

So many of your characters are drawn from you could loosely say the working class or even the underclass. They are predominantly men, not all but predominantly men who coming back to this point about the venality, greed and lost violence. And are you not, you know, as a man from a comfortable background looking at the working class and condescending to them? Well that's my right to address the residue because it used to be called theunderclass. It was questioned for the first time in my life with this book and I'd be doing it for 40 years writing about that class. In fact the abs and tees in my novels are the middle classes. I take the extremes at