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Book SynopsisA phenomenal writer' Sunday Times
An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.
Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone''s mind.
Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies's emerging feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn''t come off quite as he expects.
''Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language'' Financial Times
Trade ReviewNo one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it * Observer *
One of the funniest books I've read in a long time * Psychologies *
Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language * Financial Times *
Moving and humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth * Daily Telegraph *
The best novelist of his generation * Independent *
