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Billy Liar: Keith Waterhouse (Penguin Essentials, 48)

Billy Liar: Keith Waterhouse (Penguin Essentials, 48)

by KeithWaterhouse (Author)

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    Paperback 2015

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Synopsis

The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.

Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of the fictional country Ambrosia.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 06 Aug 2015
ISBN 10: 0241973643
ISBN 13: 9780241973646
Book Overview: Billy Fisher, a nineteen-year old in a small Yorkshire town, works as an undertaker's clerk. Nagged by his mother and shouted at by his father, he is engaged to two girls but is actually in love with a third.

Author Bio
Keith Waterhouse was born in Leeds in 1929. He has written extensively for film, tv and newspapers, and his play Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell was a West End hit in the 1990s. Billy Liar is his most famous book, and was an equally famous film, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Tom Courtenay. He died in 2009.