Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama which takes him from school to Oxford. With him we live through all the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London, and on through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, seduction and commitment. You Can't Do Both is Amis as you know him - brilliantly funny, outrageous, and alive to every social nuance; but also as you've never known him before, writing with tenderness and compelling insight in a story which is strongly autobiographical.
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"Funny, touching, well-constructed, sharply evocative of time and place and written with characteristic Amisian aplomb. It is a first class addition to his oeuvre."
—Spectator --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
—Spectator --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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'Has you moved to tears. Amis amazes at every turn... A masterpiece from a master' - David Hughes, Mail on Sunday
'Acutely and poignantly observed ... there is still fire in the old devil's belly.' - Christopher Stace, Daily Telegraph
'The characterisation is as persuasive as the serpentine, richly baroque prose. You Can't Do Both is as finely judged, as exactly observed, as vividly conceived as anything he has written.' - Daniel Johnson, The Times
'You Can't Do Both is funny, touching, well-constructed, sharply evocative of time and place and written with characteristic Amisian aplomb. It is a first class addition to his oeuvre.' - Eric Jacobs, The Spectator
'Will have you whooping with delight.' - John Osborne, Literary Review --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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