This is the book that tells you like it is and like it was. Wearing the terrible clothes and awful hair known as eighties 'style', Josh starts his first year at Oxford bursting with hopes, ambitions and ludicrously unrealistic expectations. "Thinly Disguised Autobiography" is the story of his rude awakening, from the sleaze of Fleet Street to the terror of the LA riots, from clubbing at the Wag to slumming it at Glastonbury, from Oxford to London via Venice, Spetses, Laguna Beach and Bromsgrove: the highs, the lows, the snobbery, rejection, bitterness and disappointment. Plus copious quantities of drugs - and even a tiny bit of romance. Praise for James Delingpole's previous novel, "Fin": 'If you like Nick Hornby, you'll like this' - "Daily Mail". 'Sharp and enjoyable...A clever social comedy' - "The Times". 'A thoroughly entertaining novel' - "Scotsman". 'Canny, funny and refreshingly original' - "Mirror".
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'If you like Nick Hornby, you'll like this' Daily Mail 'Sharp and enjoyable...A clever social comedy' The Times 'A thoroughly entertaining novel' Scotsman 'Canny, funny and refreshingly original' Mirror
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James Delingpole is rock critic for the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH and TV critic for the SPECTATOR. This is his third novel. He lives in London with his wife and children.
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The terrifying candour of the shameless,
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A bildungsroman without the bildung -- the publication of this confession of misdemeanours from which the author has insisted on learning nothing is simply the last and most wonderful of the gaffes it chronicles. You'll wince, deeply, lingeringly, astounded, repelled. Another Dr Faustus. Another wazzock. A phenomenon.
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So much for Oxford!,
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Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll! Look out, Rhodes scholars! An Oxford education is as fraught with mindless, self-destructive behavioral norms as any party school this side of the Atlantic. The author's subsequent career in journalism is hardly more dignified.
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