Billy Hayes is a variety tumbler who dreams his life from the muscles up, an eternally hopeful, innocent, man. This book paints a subtle picture of an Australian artist coming to terms with his place in the world, in an austere, but still imperial, Britain of the 1930s and 40s.
- ISBN10 0571169570
- ISBN13 9780571169573
- Publish Date 6 September 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2009
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English