Name: Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
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Author: Nigel Dennis
ISBN: 9780571260478

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Publisher

Faber & Faber

Author

Nigel Dennis

Year

2010

Pages

440

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.80 x 12.60 x 3.20 cm

ISBN13

9780571260478

Boys and Girls Come Out to Play

Nigel Dennis (Author) · Faber & Faber · Paperback

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Synopsis "Boys and Girls Come Out to Play"

What caught my imagination was Dennis's ability both to enjoy the brightness of this little arena of casual pleasure and to go with the waiters and skivvies into the backstage world of dark kitchens and hard labour that frames and sustains it.' Michael Frayn, Guardian

''Everyone who now remembers Nigel Dennis thinks that his first novel was Cards of Identity (1955). But in fact he had already written Boys and Girls Come Out to Play (1949)... what I recall liking so much about it was first the story of a young man''s emergence from the dark tunnel of his childhood, with the discovery that there are drugs to control the epilepsy that has kept him imprisoned, and then the account of his first glorious summer of freedom... in an unnamed but famously picturesque north European city... What caught my imagination was Dennis''s ability both to enjoy the brightness of this little arena of casual pleasure and to go with the waiters and skivvies into the backstage world of dark kitchens and hard labour that frames and sustains it.'' Michael Frayn, Guardian