Metroland
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Sixteen-year-old suburbanite Chris Lloyd and his mate Toni spend their free time wishing they were French, making up stories about strangers, and pretending to be flâneurs. When they grow up they'd like to be "artists-in-residence at a nudist colony." If youthful voyeurism figures heavily in their everyday lives, so, too, do the pleasures of analogy, metaphor, and deliberate misprision. Sauntering into one store that dares to call itself MAN SHOP, Toni demands: "One man and two small boys, please." Julian Barnes could probably fill several books with these boys' clever misadventures, but
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Manufacturer: Vintage
Release date: 27 October 1992
ISBN-10 : 0679736085 | ISBN-13: 9780679736080
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Release date: 27 October 1992
ISBN-10 : 0679736085 | ISBN-13: 9780679736080
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