The cult classic novel of growing up in 1950s England from the writer of Withnail and I
Bruce Robinson is the director and screenwriter of Withnail & I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Jennifer 8, and The Rum Diary. He has also written the screenplays for The Killing Fields, Shadow Makers (released in the US as Fat Man and Little Boy), Return to Paradise, and In Dreams. He is the author of The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, Paranoia in the Launderette, and two books for children, The Obvious Elephant and Harold and the Duck, both illustrated by Sophie Windham. He lives in London.
This book hums with particularity and vision ... Thomas Penman is
the work of a genuine prose-writer - and a gifted one at that
*OBSERVER*
This book is in a league-table of revulsion all its own
*SUNDAY TIMES*
Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been
depicted with such gusto, and never has the venerable Bildungsroman
received such riotously profane treatment.
*NEW YORK TIMES*
This book hums with particularity and vision ... Thomas Penman is
the work of a genuine prose-writer - and a gifted one at that *
OBSERVER *
This book is in a league-table of revulsion all its own * SUNDAY
TIMES *
Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been
depicted with such gusto, and never has the venerable Bildungsroman
received such riotously profane treatment. * NEW YORK TIMES *
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