Written in the 1950s, the eight stories collected here are brilliantly of their time: the decade of rubber plants, espresso bars and skiffle, of Suez, Teddy Boys and Angry Young Men.
With compassion and deadly accuracy, Angus Wilson charts the scandals and secrets of the respectable middle classes - Kennie, the Borstal Boy mascot of an intellectual clique; June Raven, an SW3 hostess who gets over-involved with one of her publisher-husband's authors; Lord Peacehaven, retired megalomaniac; Maurice Liebig, teenage pawn in a family feud; and the mad old man who finds the justice of God in a hen roost.
- ISBN10 0670169919
- ISBN13 9780670169917
- Publish Date 14 November 1957
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 11 October 2008
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Viking Books
- Format Hardcover
- Language English