The Graduate by Charles Webb - ISBN: 9780141190242
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Suburban malaise, older woman, and a daughter’s unexpected arrival.

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    208 pages

  • Release Date

    17 September 2010

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Summary

New to Penguin Modern Classics, with an introduction by Hanif Kureishi

As far as Benjamin Braddock’s parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy a life of money, cocktails and pool parties in the suburbs, just like them. For Benjamin, however, this isn’t quite enough. When his parents’ friend Mrs Robinson, a formidable older woman, strips naked in front of him and they begin an affair, it seem…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780141190242
ISBN-10:0141190248
Author:Charles Webb, Hanif Kureishi
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint:Penguin Classics
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:208
Edition:09000th
Release Date:17 September 2010
Weight:160g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 13mm
Series:Penguin Modern Classics
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Critics Review

‘He writes with this lovely, spare style’ - Nick Hornby

He writes with this lovely, spare style – Nick Hornby

About The Author

Charles Webb

Charles Webb was born in 1939 in San Francisco. The Graduate was his first novel; since then he has published Love, Roger, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, The Abolitionist of Clark Gable Place and Elsinor.

Hanif Kureishi was born and brought up in Kent. He is the author of numerous novels, short story collections, screenplays and plays. In 1984 his My Beautiful Laundrette received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay. His second film, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, was followed by London Kills Me, which he also directed. The Buddha of Suburbia won the Whitbread Prize for Best First Novel in 1990. His second novel, The Black Album, was published in 1995 and his first collection of short stories, Love in a Blue Time, was published in 1997. Intimacy, his third novel, was published in 1998. Midnight All Day was published in 2000, followed in 2001 by Gabriel’s Gift and his collection of essays, The Word and the Bomb. Hanif Kureishi lives in West London.

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