Product description
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
Specifications
| Product ID / ISBN / EAN | 9780571225828 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Format | Paperback |
| Condition | New |
| Language | English |
| Publication Date | 3 Mar 2005 |
| Number of Pages | 256 |
| Width | 12.7 cm |
| Height | 19.6 cm |
| Depth | 1.7 cm |