Jill
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Product Information
| ISBN | 9780571225828 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Philip Larkin |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.210 |
| Publishing Date | 03/03/2005 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €13.68 |
| Tax | €0.82 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €14.50 |
| Availability | 2 units in external warehouse |
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