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158 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780671678111
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 01 January 1960
Description
This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, se...
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158 pages • first pub 2011 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780671678111
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
Publication date: 01 January 1960
Description
This powerful short novel, with its extraordinary mixture of acute social realism and dark fantasy, was described by J. R. Ackerley himself as "a fairy tale for adults." Frank, the narrator, is a middle-aged civil servant, intelligent, acerbic, se...