Overview
But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world . 'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' Joyce Carol Oates'Remarkable .
Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable ''friend'', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world …
‘Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.'' Joyce Carol Oates
‘Remarkable … A book about innocence.’ Simon Garfield
''A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.'' Andrew Motion
- | Author: Philip Larkin
- | Publisher: Faber & Faber
- | Publication Date: Mar 03, 2005
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780571225828
- | ISBN-10: 0571225829
