ENGLISH

A Touch of Love

By Jonathan Coe

Book information

Publisher
Penguin Books
Year
2008
ISBN
0141033312, 9780141033310
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
488 kB (499321 bytes)
Pages
240\0
Time added
2012-03-09 12:00:00

Description

Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once spent hours discussing their theories, but they somehow never made it into print. Now his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his secret obsessions and frustrations. Then, when an unfortunate and embarassing incident in a public park lands him in serious trouble, Robin's life finally spirals out of control ...

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