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Condition: Very Good (dustjacket very poor) Jacket ripped in many places and parts of both flaps missing. Book very slightly damaged / faded at edges. Pencil inscriptions on flyleaf. Page edges dirty in places. Binding tight. Plot / Content: "This novel reveals a boy at that indefinite and indeterminate age when sexual and physical development, having advanced so far, seems to pause before the final assertion of manhood. Pat Lawrence feels himself to be an outsider, one who is unable to respond to, or enter into, the various forms of love or passion offered him or displayed to him by others. The reason for this disability lies partly in the fact that he is suffering a long and difficult adolescence; it is also the result of the clear-eyed commonsense peculiar to certain children. As a literal-minded, lively but totally unromantic boy, Pat is unable to accept the different versions of a emotion suggested to him by devoted parents, relations, strangers, a crazy parson and a group of older boys and girls. Love, he feels, instinctively, is a lot of unnecessary fuss and bother. (from the cover) Background / Biography: James Falconer Kirkup, FRSL (23 April 1918 – 10 May 2009) was a prolific poet, translator and travel writer. He was perhaps best known for his poem "The Love That Dares To Speak Its Name", published by Gay News (London) in 1977, which led to that newspaper being successfully prosecuted for blasphemy. Wikipedia entry lastingtribute.co.uk Reviews: Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
Quote from this book "Stephen had changed. He was no longer the person Pat had known in the beginning. Before, he didn't behave in this way. Or had he just been pretending? Pat was used to bad behaviour and foul language; it had always passed over him without leaving any mark. But with Stephen, it was different. It was as if his own father and mother had suddenly started behaving indecently in front of him. He had never heard Stephen talk so much, and this was as shocking to Pat as the coarseness of his language." p 252 of this edition Secondhand booksellers |
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