Billy Liar
Author(s): Keith Waterhouse
The classic comedy of a 50s youth trapped inside a Walter Mitty fantasy-world, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Keith Waterhouse's Billy Liar was published in 1959, and captures brilliantly the claustrophobic atmosphere of a small town. It tells the story of Billy Fisher, a Yorkshire teenager unable to stop lying - especially to his three girlfriends. Trapped by his boring job and working-class parents, Billy finds that his only happiness lies in grand plans for his future and fantastical day-dreams of the fictional country Ambrosia.
Product Information
Keith Waterhouse was born in Leeds in 1929. He has written extensively for film, tv and newspapers, and his play Jeffrey Barnard is Unwell was a West End hit in the 1990s. Billy Liar is his most famous book, and was an equally famous film, directed by John Schlesinger, starring Tom Courtenay. He died in 2009.
General Fields
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- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : Penguin Books, Limited
- : 0.1
- : 05 August 2015
- : 181mm X 111mm X 11mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Keith Waterhouse
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 176
