HIS NAME WAS THOMAS CHRISTOPHER PENMAN, A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD ASTHMATIC SHORT-ARSE WITH BIG EARS AND AN UNWHOLESOME CHARACTERISTIC...
The cult classic novel of growing up in 1950s England from the writer of Withnail and I
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HIS NAME WAS THOMAS CHRISTOPHER PENMAN, A THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD ASTHMATIC SHORT-ARSE WITH BIG EARS AND AN UNWHOLESOME CHARACTERISTIC...
The cult classic novel of growing up in 1950s England from the writer of Withnail and I
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'Hums with particularity and vision' - Observer'Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been depicted with such gusto, and never has the venerable Bildungsroman received such riotously profane treatment' - New York TimesThe acclaimed autobiographical debut novel by Oscar-winning screenwriter Bruce Robinson, the author of Withnail and IThis is the story of a dysfunctional family. It is about a boy and his grandpa, life and death, sex and hate, dog's meat and cancer.It is also about pornography, enemas, Morse codes, puberty, secrets, God and loathing.It is also about love.
Critic Reviews
This book hums with particularity and vision ... Thomas Penman is the work of a genuine prose-writer - and a gifted one at that OBSERVER
This book is in a league-table of revulsion all its own SUNDAY TIMES
Never before has the painful, knotty journey to maturity been depicted with such gusto, and never has the venerable Bildungsroman received such riotously profane treatment. NEW YORK TIMES
About the Author
Bruce Robinson is the director and screenwriter of Withnail & I, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Jennifer 8, and The Rum Diary. He has also written the screenplays for The Killing Fields, Shadow Makers (released in the US as Fat Man and Little Boy), Return to Paradise, and In Dreams. He is the author of The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman, Paranoia in the Launderette, and two books for children, The Obvious Elephant and Harold and the Duck, both illustrated by Sophie Windham. He lives in London.
This is an excruciatingly funny book about an astonishingly dysfunctional family. It is about a boy and his grandpa, life and death, sex and hate, dog's meat and cancer. It is also about pornography, enemas, Morse codes, puberty, secrets, God and loathing. And it is about love. It is also funnier, more painful, more touching, more sexy and more profound than the funny, painfuul, touching, sexy, profound book you might have expected from the author of WITHNAIL AND I.
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