'Brilliantly clever . . . mercilessly funny.' - Kenneth Allsop, "Daily Mail"
'One of the most brilliantly written books since the war.' - Ian Fleming, "Sunday Times"
' A] clever and pitiless novel.' - Neil Ascherson, "Observer"
' An] extremely promising and funny first novel.' - "New Yorker"
'I laughed until I cried. Benedictus is a dazzling new wit and a blazing new talent.' - Patrick Dennis
David Benedictus was only twenty-three when his shock-filled, highly controversial first novel was published in 1962. In "The Fourth of June," Benedictus shows what it was like...