โ Scribed by Martin Amis
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind.
The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. 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 feminism towards his own ends. Torn between three women, his scheming doesn't come off quite as he expects.
No one better understands the cosmic joke that is humanity. Nor is anyone as funny telling it (Andrew Anthony Observer )
One of the funniest books I've read in a long time (Mariella Frostrup Psychologies )
Read it: it is hilarious, often wonderfully perceptive, uncompromisingly ambitious and written by a great master of the English language (Justin Cartwright Financial Times )
Moving and humane... I love this novel... It is beautifully achieved, cunningly relaxed, and reveals considerable emotional depth (Philip Hensher Daily Telegraph )
The best novelist of his generation (Independent )
Amis on top form. An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.
Library : General
Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9781400044528
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