This new edition includes an introduction by John Andrew Fredrick. 'A great fund of comic invention'--The Times Literary Supplement 'Written with great spirit . . . very funny'--The Listener
Stories:The life guard ; Manhood ; King Caliban ; I love you, Ricky ; Christmas at Rillingham's ; Rafferty ; The valentine generation ; A message from the pig-man ; Down our way ; Goodnight, Old Daisy.
The lost classic 'Angry Young Man' novel.
Seventeen-year-old English boy breaks away from home and his severe, professorial father to become a jazz musician and the companion of a gentle American Negro hornplayer.
The lost classic novel of a young man's rebellion against his father, set against a backdrop of Jazz in 1940s London.
The lost novel, winner of the 1982 Whitbread Prize.