Kiddar's Luck

He was indeed the nearest anybody ever got to Charlie Chaplin in print…the sentences skid and dance and hop on one leg or take a custard pie right on the chin or duck and weave and leave you gasping behind. But he is more for the wry smile than the belly laugh…'' This was how Sid Chaplin described Jack Common, author of two of the finest working-class novels of the 20th century, and ''the finest p...