Strike the Father Dead

John Wain

Foruli Fiction, 28 févr. 2015 - 318 pages

The lost classic novel of a young man's rebellion against his father, set against a backdrop of Jazz in 1940s London.

A young man rebels against the stuffy future envisaged for him by his father, an upright Professor of Classics in a 'red-brick' university. He runs away from school at the age of seventeen and becomes a jazz pianist in a low dive club in one of the seamier haunts of London. The year is 1942...

À propos de l'auteur

John Wain, 1925-94, was an English novelist and critic. He served as professor of poetry at Oxford (1973-8) and wrote or edited more than seventy books. His works include the novels A Winter in the Hills (1970) and The Pardoner's Tale (1978); Letters to Five Artists (1969), poems; and critical studies of Arnold Bennett (1967) and Samuel Johnson (1975).

Informations bibliographiques

• Titre: Strike the Father Dead
• Auteur: John Wain
• Édition: illustrée, réimprimée
• Éditeur: Foruli Fiction, 2015
• ISBN: 1905792573, 9781905792573
• Longueur: 318 pages