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Jill

Published
Sep 1984
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
256

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A young man from Northern England struggles to find a sense of belonging at Oxford University during WWII in this "brilliant" novel by a literary icon (The Times).

 


John, who's never traveled far from his northern town of Huddleston, finds himself an undergraduate at Oxford University in 1940. A shy, insecure working-class young man, he is awed by his confident, careless roommate and yearns to fit in, clumsily pursuing a girl from a wealthy family. But as his efforts fail, he retreats further into a dream world in this early novel by Philip Larkin, who would go on to become one of the most celebrated poetic voices of postwar Britain.


 


"Provides a revealing portrait of Oxford and the English class system as it existed during World War II . . . Mr. Larkin's gift for using landscape as a mirror of an individual's emotions is very much in evidence." —The New York Times

 

Includes an introduction by the author

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Aug 1984 Overlook Press ISBN 0879519614
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Jul 1985 MacMillan ISBN 085119334X
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