Author: John Wain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939140319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - Sunday Times Charles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his smugly conventional bourgeois upbringing. Now he has just graduated from university, only to make the discouraging discovery that his education has rendered him unfit for any kind of useful employment. Wondering what to do with the rest of his life and longing to escape, a chance remark overheard in a pub sets him off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s Britain. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works as a window cleaner, a drug trafficker, a hospital orderly, and a chauffeur, all while trying to find his place in the world and win the love of the beautiful Veronica Roderick. John Wain (1925-1994) was one of the great English men of letters of the 20th century, a prolific novelist, poet, biographer, and critic whose many accolades included the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Whitbread Award. Hurry on Down (1953), his first novel, ushered in a new kind of English novel and paved the way for many later classics, including Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) and John Braine's Room at the Top (1957). This 60th anniversary edition includes an introduction by Nick Bentley and marks the novel's first republication in the United States in more than half a century.
Hurry on Down
Author: John Wain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939140319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - Sunday Times Charles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his smugly conventional bourgeois upbringing. Now he has just graduated from university, only to make the discouraging discovery that his education has rendered him unfit for any kind of useful employment. Wondering what to do with the rest of his life and longing to escape, a chance remark overheard in a pub sets him off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s Britain. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works as a window cleaner, a drug trafficker, a hospital orderly, and a chauffeur, all while trying to find his place in the world and win the love of the beautiful Veronica Roderick. John Wain (1925-1994) was one of the great English men of letters of the 20th century, a prolific novelist, poet, biographer, and critic whose many accolades included the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Whitbread Award. Hurry on Down (1953), his first novel, ushered in a new kind of English novel and paved the way for many later classics, including Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) and John Braine's Room at the Top (1957). This 60th anniversary edition includes an introduction by Nick Bentley and marks the novel's first republication in the United States in more than half a century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939140319
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"A great fund of comic invention." - Times Literary Supplement "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - Listener " A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - Sunday Times Charles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his smugly conventional bourgeois upbringing. Now he has just graduated from university, only to make the discouraging discovery that his education has rendered him unfit for any kind of useful employment. Wondering what to do with the rest of his life and longing to escape, a chance remark overheard in a pub sets him off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s Britain. He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works as a window cleaner, a drug trafficker, a hospital orderly, and a chauffeur, all while trying to find his place in the world and win the love of the beautiful Veronica Roderick. John Wain (1925-1994) was one of the great English men of letters of the 20th century, a prolific novelist, poet, biographer, and critic whose many accolades included the Somerset Maugham Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Whitbread Award. Hurry on Down (1953), his first novel, ushered in a new kind of English novel and paved the way for many later classics, including Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim (1954) and John Braine's Room at the Top (1957). This 60th anniversary edition includes an introduction by Nick Bentley and marks the novel's first republication in the United States in more than half a century.
A Travelling Woman
Author: John Wain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Young shoulders
Author: John Wain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783425048338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783425048338
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Nuncle
Author: John Wain
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
A Winter in the Hills
Author: John Wain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941147016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An English philologist in North Wales, intending to become fluent in the language, becomes involved with the locals whose exploits have a lasting and surprising effect on his life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781941147016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
An English philologist in North Wales, intending to become fluent in the language, becomes involved with the locals whose exploits have a lasting and surprising effect on his life.
The Smaller Sky
Author: John Wain
Publisher: London, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Publisher: London, Macmillan
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
John Wain
Author: Elizabeth Hatziolou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Where the Rivers Meet
Author: John Wain
Publisher: Hutchinson Radius
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Publisher: Hutchinson Radius
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
John Wain
Author: Dale Salwak
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Publisher: Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
John Wain
Author: David E. Gerard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description