As Near as I Can Get
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As Near as I Can Get

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As Near as I Can Get

About this book

First published in 1962 As Near as I Can Get was Paul Ableman's follow up to his critically acclaimed debut I Hear Voices.

Following Alan Peebles, a young man struggling to become a poet, As Near as I Can depicts a mid-twentieth century London of offices, pubs and lodgings. Fuelled by drink through these desperate years, the narrator charts his encounters with women and fellow artists, as he seeks to glimpse a wonder in life barely discernible beneath the routine of every day.

'Paul Ableman's novels were praised for their inventive language, bawdy high spirits, and originality of form by Anthony Burgess, Philip Toynbee, Robert Nye and other friends of the avant-garde. They are witty, original, and full of good humour, and I am delighted Faber Finds are reissuing them.' Margaret Drabble

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Information

Publisher
Faber & Faber
Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780571314164
Edition
0

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Landing Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Contents
  5. Preface to the 2014 Edition
  6. My Uncle Edward called …
  7. The office was visually a place of sterile tedium…
  8. Mary and I had always quarrelled…
  9. Summer
  10. Who else?
  11. It was Charley Nelmes…
  12. Below the family cottage…
  13. Is this characteristic of our times?
  14. For about a year I knew Ned Collins well
  15. It was snowing
  16. When I first came down to London…
  17. As for the Cambridge…
  18. I recall the slender shoot of annoyance…
  19. And now, in perverse conclusion…
  20. Copyright