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You Can't Do Both
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Adam Newington
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 17 December 2020
- Run Time
- 12 hours
- Format
- Audiobook
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Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets Nancy Bennett, a young woman even less worldly than himself. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have his cake and eat it.
©Kingsley Amis 1994 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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Acutely and poignantly observed-there is still fire in the old devil's belly
Daily Telegraph
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As finely judged, as exactly observed, as vividly conceived as anything he has written
The Times
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Funny, touching, well-constructed, sharply evocative of time and place and written with characteristic Amisian aplomb. It is a first class addition to his oeuvre
Spectator
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Will have you whooping with delight
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Details
- Author
- Kingsley Amis
- Narrator
- Adam Newington
- Duration
- 12 hours
- Release Date
- 17 December 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473579224
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets Nancy Bennett, a young woman even less worldly than himself. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have his cake and eat it.©Kingsley Amis 1994 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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