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| Author | Michael de Larrabeiti |
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| Series | The Borrible Trilogy |
Publication date | 1981 |
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| ISBN | 0765350068 |
| Preceded by | The Borribles |
| Followed by | The Borribles: Across the Dark Metropolis |
The Borribles Go For Broke is the second volume of theBorrible Trilogy, written byMichael de Larrabeiti and first published in 1981 byThe Bodley Head in theUnited Kingdom.[1][2]
Borribles are runaway children whose ears become pointed as they take to the streets, indicators of their independence and intelligence. As long as their ears remain unclipped they will never age; for this reason, they wear woollen hats pulled low over their ears in order to remain undetected by the authorities, who find their freedom threatening to the social order. Borribles are skinny, scruffy, and tough; they have nothing to do with money, and steal what they need to survive.
Following on from the adventures ofThe Borribles, the second volume of The Borrible Trilogy begins with the surviving adventurers (such as Chalotte and Sydney and Vulge) discovering that Sam the horse is still alive. In attempting to rescue him the Borribles are lured into danger both by the newly-established Special Borrible Group, a branch of the police determined to wipe out the Borribles and their way of life, and by one of their own – Spiff, whose motives behind the mission to Rumbledom are slowly revealed.
All this leads the Borribles deep in to Wendle territory beneath the streets of Wandsworth, and down in to a shifting tunnel of mud dug deep beneath the mudflats of the Wandle River.
A July 2004 report inVariety revealed that a film based on the entire trilogy was being developed by CUBA Pictures, the film development arm of literary agentsCurtis Brown.[3]
David Langford reviewedThe Borribles Go For Broke in the May 1984 issue ofWhite Dwarf, stating:
Sussworth and his minion Sergeant Hanks are brilliantly awful grotesques, like Dickens characters; with their ghastly dedication they'd burn any number of ideologically unsound books, especially this one. Meanwhile the main story is about bloody internecine strife between Borribles, and amounts to a mini-epic. Fine stuff.[4]
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