Description
An eighteen-year-old from Lancashire, John Kemp arrives at Oxford hoping to find his place in an unfamiliar world of privilege, learning, and new social possibilities. As he struggles to adapt to university life, loneliness and imagination lead him to create an alluring story around “Jill,” a figure who seems to offer escape from the constraints of his own experience. A perceptive novel of education and self-discovery, it explores class, desire, fantasy, and the painful gap between romantic ideals and reality. With understated wit and emotional precision, it captures the awkwardness of youth entering adulthood.
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hardcover
Overlook Hardcover
Published May 10, 1976
256 pages
ISBN: 9780879510381
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Details
First Published
1946
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Jill by Philip Larkin.