Jill
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- ISBN 9780571225828
- Weight: 205g
- Dimensions: 17 x 123mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2005
- Publisher: Faber & Faber
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Michaelmas term, 1940. 18-year-old John Kemp has come down from Lancashire to Oxford University to begin his scholarship studying English. But when he invents an imaginary sister to win the attention of a rich but unreliable 'friend', and then falls in love for real, undergraduate life becomes its own strange world .
'Absolutely contemporary - perhaps even prophetic.' Joyce Carol Oates
'Remarkable . A book about innocence.' Simon Garfield
'A cryptic literary manifesto [about] discovering a literary personality, and the consolation art can provide.' Andrew Motion
Philip Larkin was an English novelist, librarian and celebrated poet, who has been awarded numerous honours including the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Born in Coventry in 1922, he was educated at King Henry VIII School and Oxford University. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964) and High Windows (1974). He also wrote two novels, Jill (1946) and A Girl in Winter (1947), as well as two books of collected journalism: All What Jazz: A Record Library and Required Writing: Miscellaneous Prose. Larkin worked as a librarian at the University of Hull from 1955 until his death in 1985. In 2003, he was chosen as Britain's best-loved poet of the previous 50 years by a Poetry Book Society Survey, while in 2008, The Times named him Britain's greatest post-war writer. In 2016, a memorial was unveiled at Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey.
