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Thomas Penman is enduring a very bad adolescence. Growing up in dark, dingy 1950s England, Thomas has problems. These include an unspeakable personal hygiene issue, an eccentric, ailing grandfather who speaks to him in Morse Code, an unrequited passion for the lovely Gwen Hackett, and an incriminatingly large stash of pornography. To cap it all, his warring parents are having him followed by a private investigator. It's hard to believe that things could get much worse for him, but, in fact, they are about to...
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‘A strange, unsettling book which is, by turns, grotesque, lyrical, touching and darkly comic’ -- Spectator
‘Beautiful ... Almost every passage of this book hums with particularity and vision’ -- Observer
‘Magnificent ... intensely funny’ -- Empire
‘Profoundly moving ... far too clever, too assured and too damn good to be a first attempt’ -- Independent on Sunday
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‘Beautiful ... Almost every passage of this book hums with particularity and vision’ -- Observer
‘Magnificent ... intensely funny’ -- Empire
‘Profoundly moving ... far too clever, too assured and too damn good to be a first attempt’ -- Independent on Sunday
Bruce Robinson was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay of The Killing Fields. He has written and directed many other films, most famously Withnail and I.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0747574588
- ISBN 13 9780747574583
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages288
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