Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford describing the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London and on through his rites of passage to adulthood. 'You Can't do Both' is classic Amis - funny, tender, insightful - and strongly autobiographical.
Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford describing the pangs of a pre-war adoles...
Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As they gnaw away at his composure, he wonders whether insanity is not something with which women are intimately acquainted.
Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sid...
