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Strike The Father Dead

Strike The Father Dead

Strike The Father Dead

John Wain

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Foruli Limited
Año de edición:
2015
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9781905792573
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The lost classic novel of a young man's rebellion against his father, set against a backdrop of Jazz in 1940s London.A young man rebels against the stuffy future envisaged for him by his father, an upright Professor of Classics in a 'red-brick' university. He runs away from school at the age of seventeen and becomes a jazz pianist in a low dive club in one of the seamier haunts of London. The year is 1942...

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