The Folks That Live on the Hill
by Kingsley Amis | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0140104348 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0140104348 Global Overview for this book
Registered by Sunnybubble of Wallasey, Merseyside United Kingdom on 7/6/2007
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
Harry Caldecote, former librarian, finds retirement anything but restful.
He expected the freedoms of age and of the 1980s. Instead, he gets something like bondage: responsibility for everyone he knows -- his grown children, his brother, even worse his sister, who arrives to keep house. How can Harry mount his amorous adventures with time and privacy shorn away?
Yet desire and duty, love and loyalty, are opposite sides of the same coin and in THE FOLKS THAT LIVE ON THE HILL Amis once again illuminates that irritating contradiction with characteristic wit and insight.
He expected the freedoms of age and of the 1980s. Instead, he gets something like bondage: responsibility for everyone he knows -- his grown children, his brother, even worse his sister, who arrives to keep house. How can Harry mount his amorous adventures with time and privacy shorn away?
Yet desire and duty, love and loyalty, are opposite sides of the same coin and in THE FOLKS THAT LIVE ON THE HILL Amis once again illuminates that irritating contradiction with characteristic wit and insight.
Journal Entry 2 by Sunnybubble at Ring of Bells Pub in West Kirby, Merseyside United Kingdom on Friday, July 6, 2007
Released 16 yrs ago (7/7/2007 UTC) at Ring of Bells Pub in West Kirby, Merseyside United Kingdom
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Picked this up at the BC meet at the Ring O' Bells pub on Saturday 7 July.
Picked up at the mini-meet in Shrewsbury this morning - it has been slotted in fairly need the top of the pile!
Journal Entry 5 by Jellybaby531 at Morgans Bar in Shrewsbury, Shropshire United Kingdom on Friday, July 20, 2012
Released 11 yrs ago (7/20/2012 UTC) at Morgans Bar in Shrewsbury, Shropshire United Kingdom
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I didn't manage to get round to reading this so am releasing it for someone else to enjoy.
Left on a table outside the bar.
Happy reading!
Left on a table outside the bar.
Happy reading!
