Metroland
by:
Julian Barnes (author)
Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out."
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Only the author of Flaubert's Parrot could give us a novel that is at once a note-perfect rendition of the angsts and attitudes of English adolescence, a giddy comedy of sexual awakening in the 1960s, and a portrait of the accommodations that some of us call "growing up" and others "selling out."
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679736080 (0679736085)
Publish date: October 27th 1992
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
I read this novel a while ago. It dealt with two childhood friends who talked about rebelling against the establishment when coming of age in England. We follow the journey of Christopher who has gone his separate way to pursue a bohemian artist existence. However, his journey leads him to the v...
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