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A shy and insecure working-class Oxford undergraduate during the Second World War retreats into a dream world when he finds it difficult to adjust to life at an upper-class college
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Review:
"'The qualities one has learned to value in his poetry are there: control of emotion and language, keen observation, and in particular the very precise expression of half-success, anticipated failure or sadness.' New Statesman; 'Jill is, in a sense, a kind of cryptic literary manifesto. It is a novel about writing, about discovering a literary personality, and about the sorts of consolation that art can provide.' Andrew Motion"
Book Description:
Jill is Philip Larkin's first novel and a classic of its time, in which the poet's astute insight into character, emotion and social nuance plays out over the length of a novel in a rich, poetic prose.
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- PublisherChivers Press
- Publication date1985
- ISBN 10 085119334X
- ISBN 13 9780851193342
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages384
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