by John Wain · Penguin UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140014426
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«Hurry On Down» is the picaresque and satirical novel by British writer John Wain, published by Penguin UK in paperback (256 pages, in English).
Charles Lumley, newly graduated and fed up with bourgeois conventions, wanders through 1950s England stringing together odd jobs (window cleaner, chauffeur, hospital orderly) while courting Veronica Roderick. A picaresque comedy about identity and rebellion against a society that never quite fits.
First novel by John Wain (1925-1994), originally published in 1953 by Secker & Warburg.
For readers of twentieth-century British fiction and satirical comedies with social undertones.
John Barrington Wain CBE was an English poet, novelist, and critic, associated with the literary group known as "The Movement". He worked for most of his life as a freelance journalist and author, writing and reviewing for newspapers and the radio.
