Hurry on Down
A Fiction book. It was really hard for me to get interested in, the...
"A great fund of comic invention." - "Times Literary Supplement" "Written with great spirit . . . very funny . . . fresh, unhackneyed and excellently observed." - "Listener" "[A] bustling kaleidoscope of a book, by an author fertile in expedient, keenly observant and occasionally probing the heart of darkness." - "Sunday Times" Charles Lumley feels that he has been born in captivity - the captivity of his smugly conventional bourgeois upbringing. Now he has just graduated from university, only to make the discouraging discovery that his education has rendered him unfit for any kind of useful employment. Wondering what to do with the rest of his life and longing to escape, a chance remark overheard in a pub sets him off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s Britain. He...
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- ISBN: 9780670001873 / 670001872
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Hurry on down proves a colourful mix of social commentary, emotion, random luck events and the meandering brain of one taken to making both nothing and everything of a situation. For the most part, the novel has been lucidly strung together, and save for a slow, wordy beginning it is only once in a while that it loses momentum, showing... It was really hard for me to get interested in, the main character was a dick and I didn't like what the novel was even about, but overall it had a good ending and I don't regret reading. Still not the kind of book for me. Was way too boring in lots of parts. I read that this is known as a commentary on the changing British social structure in the middle of the 20th century. The protagonist struggles to find a place.
