I don't know if this is a book I would normally read.
Found it in a charity shop.
The adventures through the world of Hamo Langmuir, grower of 'magic' rice, and his god-daughter Alexandra Grant -a novel of sexual intrigue and the search for meaning. Explores the growth of interest in the irrational during the 1960s, and the deep but conflicted relationship between East and West. AUTHBIO: Angus Wilson was one of Britain's most respected twentieth century novelists. His razor-sharp and savagely witty examinations of British manners, characters and social conflicts resonate with a wide readership. He was born in 1913 in Surrey, and went on to work for a variety of organisations including the intelligence services at Bletchley and the British Library before publishing his first book to great acclaim in 1949. He founded the world-famous Creative Writing MA at the University of East Anglia with Malcolm Bradbury in the late 1960s, and became Chair of the Arts Council's Literature Panel and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He was also one of Britain's first openly gay writers, tackling the subject in his writing well before the liberalisation laws of 1967. He was knighted for services to literature in 1980.

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