Young Adolf

Beryl Bainbridge author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group

Published:3rd Jul '03

Currently unavailable, currently targeted to be due back around 3rd February 2025, but could change

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* A black comedy about Hitler's time in Liverpool * 'Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge' - MAIL ON SUNDAY

* A black comedy about Hitler's time in Liverpool
* 'Vintage bittersweet Bainbridge' - MAIL ON SUNDAY

Paranoid, wilful, lazy, the young Adolf Hitler turns up in Liverpool to stay with his brother Alois and sister-in-law Bridget. Hailed by Alois as a student and an artist, Adolf soon irritates his family beyond measure by his constant sponging and his tendency to get into serious trouble with the English. Surely this is a young man who will never amount to anyth

'At once funny and appalling . splendid occasions of high farce . rich in prophetic ironies' OBSERVER *Bainbridge has created a lucicrously funny farce, behind which lurks the destructive power of repressed fantasies & deeply felt resentments' S. TIMES *Bainbridge at her whimsical best, putting fantastic events firmly in a beautifully observed background.' D. TEL. *'A delightfully original conception, executed with great skill and humour' John Fowles

ISBN: 9780349116136

Dimensions: 200mm x 135mm x 14mm

Weight: 164g

224 pages