- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Penguin (7 Oct 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141017937
- ISBN-13: 978-0141017938
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 670,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1995, and at a party in Bedford, Mary meets Jack and Neal, a pair of hipsters and self-confessed 'Beats' stuck (un)squarely in the sixties. After a 'Beat (not-quite) Happening' at the local library, the three of them (and Neal's cat Koko) set off in Mary's Vauxhall on a road trip to Brighton in search of literary fame and fortune. But, this is neither the time nor the place for free love, uncomplicated sex and unrestrained cool - this is 1990s Britain and everything comes with a price ...
About the Author
Toby Litt is the author of Adventures in Capitalism, Beatniks, Corpsing, deadkidsongs, Exhibitionism and Finding Myself. He was named one of Granta's 20 Best of Young British Novelists, 2003.
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Format:Paperback
I found this book a little odd.
The opening was very good (written about Bob Dylan) and was enough to entice me to buy the book. However I felt conned since the rest of the book is unlike the first few pages, and disappointingly nowhere near as good.
The ending scenes set in America seemed rather contrived and the ending is one of the strangest and least satisfying I have ever come across, almost as if the author had to meet a deadline or thought enough was enough. If the latter was the reason then I think I shared that emotion.
I'd like to read the book that could have followed the promising opening.
The opening was very good (written about Bob Dylan) and was enough to entice me to buy the book. However I felt conned since the rest of the book is unlike the first few pages, and disappointingly nowhere near as good.
The ending scenes set in America seemed rather contrived and the ending is one of the strangest and least satisfying I have ever come across, almost as if the author had to meet a deadline or thought enough was enough. If the latter was the reason then I think I shared that emotion.
I'd like to read the book that could have followed the promising opening.
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book, it was unlike anything i'd ever read. It's told from main character Mary's point of view, as she meets a group of people who eat, breath, and bleed beat hipness. It's rather cultish I thought, but thats what made it disturbing, interesting, and "un-putdownable".
The concepts are interesting, and and writing is great. When Mary says she and her gang are the coolest bleedin' thing around, you believe every word. I found the unresolved issues really annoying though, like who Jack really was, and what happened to him in the end. When i realised the last paragraph didn't continue onto the next page, I almost screwed the last page up. It was infuriating, but I was impressed at the same time.
I spose that just illustrates Litt's talent further.
Good luck with this one, it makes you insatiable.
The concepts are interesting, and and writing is great. When Mary says she and her gang are the coolest bleedin' thing around, you believe every word. I found the unresolved issues really annoying though, like who Jack really was, and what happened to him in the end. When i realised the last paragraph didn't continue onto the next page, I almost screwed the last page up. It was infuriating, but I was impressed at the same time.
I spose that just illustrates Litt's talent further.
Good luck with this one, it makes you insatiable.
Format:Paperback
i read this book orginally at a fairly young age, discovered in my sister's room, i was 12 or 13 at the time. after a few years i re discoverd this super book and found it not to have changed one bit... the book reminded me of how this book captured my imagination when i was 12... though at 12 i didnt truely understand what i was reading. i think everyone should read this cleverly constructed book
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