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Jill

Jill

by Philip Larkin
Paperback
Publication Date: 30/05/2023
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A coming-of-age classic by the 'best-loved English poet of the past 100 years. (Sunday Times) published to celebrate Larkin's centenary.

Jill is Philip Larkin's first novel, originally published in 1946. A subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by many critics as a classic of its kind.

Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lan-cashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unre-liable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world.

ISBN:
9780571225828
9780571225828
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
30-05-2023
Language:
English
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
123x17x17mm
Weight:
0.2kg

'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.'
- Joyce Carol Oates

'Remarkable . A book about innocence.'
- Simon Garfield

'A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.'
- Andrew Motion

Philip Larkin

Philip Larkin was born in Coventry in 1922 and was educated at King Henry VIII School, Coventry, and St John's College, Oxford. As well as his volumes of poems, which include The Whitsun Weddings and High Windows, he wrote two novels, Jill and A Girl in Winter, and two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Library, and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. He worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. He was the best-loved poet of his generation, and the recipient of innumerable honours, including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, and the WHSmith Award.

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