Billy Liar
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of British comic fiction, Billy Liar chronicles the misadventures of Billy Fisher, a young undertaker's clerk in a northern English town who escapes the mundane realities of his life through elaborate fantasies and compulsive lies. Keith Waterhouse crafts a sharply observed portrait of a dreamer trapped between the suffocating conformity of post-war provincial England and his own grandiose imagination — where he reigns as ruler of a fictional country called Ambrosia. The novel balances laugh-out-loud comedy with a genuine undercurrent of pathos, capturing the restless yearning of youth with razor-sharp wit. First published in 1959, it became a defining text of the British New Wave, inspiring a celebrated stage adaptation, a 1963 film starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, and a long-running television series. Waterhouse's voice is irreverent and pitch-perfect, presenting a character who is simultaneously infuriating and deeply sympathetic.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
A landmark of British comic fiction, Billy Liar chronicles the misadventures of Billy Fisher, a young undertaker's clerk in a northern English town who escapes the mundane realities of his life through elaborate fantasies and compulsive lies. Keith Waterhouse crafts a sharply observed portrait of a dreamer trapped between the suffocating conformity of post-war provincial England and his own grandiose imagination — where he reigns as ruler of a fictional country called Ambrosia. The novel balances laugh-out-loud comedy with a genuine undercurrent of pathos, capturing the restless yearning of youth with razor-sharp wit. First published in 1959, it became a defining text of the British New Wave, inspiring a celebrated stage adaptation, a 1963 film starring Tom Courtenay and Julie Christie, and a long-running television series. Waterhouse's voice is irreverent and pitch-perfect, presenting a character who is simultaneously infuriating and deeply sympathetic.
