The Touch of Love (Book of Love, Book Two)
A Touch of Love
β Scribed by Jonathan Coe
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 108 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
A Touch of Love is __ Jonathan Coe's delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting in
Robin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once spent hours discussing their theories, but they somehow never made it into print.
Now his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his secret obsessions and frustrations.
Then, when an unfortunate and embarrassing incident in a public park lands him in serious trouble, Robin's life finally spirals out of control. . .
A Touch of Love is a brilliant, bittersweet book that will be enjoyed by readers of...
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