All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, down-home Bible-basher and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. Or could he?
This hilarious fish-out-of-water comedy, which Boyd also adapted for screen for the 1980s film starring Daniel Day Lewis, was described in the Guardian as, `Splittingly shrewd and engaging … with an extra and uneasy little something fretting away at the ribald content’.
- ISBN10 0140075968
- ISBN13 9780140075960
- Publish Date 31 October 1985 (first published 17 September 1984)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 31 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English