Girl, 20 (New York Review Books Classics)

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Girl, 20 (New York Review Books Classics)
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Kingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and Girl, 20 is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power phase of the 1960s. Amisâ€™s antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer who bears more than a passing resemblance to Leonard Bernstein, is a pillar of the establishment whohas fallen hard for protest, bellbottoms, and the electric guitar. And since vain Sir Vandervane is a great success, he is also free to pursue his greatest failing: a taste for younger and younger women. Highborn hippie Sylvia (not, in fact, twenty) is his latest infatuation and a threat to his whole family, from his drama-queen wife, Kitty, to Penny, his long-suffering daughter.

All this is recounted by Douglas Yandell, a music critic with his own love problems, who finds that he too has a part in this story of botched artistry, bumbling celebrity, and scheming family, in a time that for all its high-minded talk is as low and dishonest as any other.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color White
ReleaseDate 2013-09-17
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590176634

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	White
ReleaseDate	2013-09-17
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590176634

Girl, 20 (New York Review Books Classics)

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