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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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Landing Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- Preface to the 2014 Edition
- My Uncle Edward called ā¦
- The office was visually a place of sterile tediumā¦
- Mary and I had always quarrelledā¦
- Summer
- Who else?
- It was Charley Nelmesā¦
- Below the family cottageā¦
- Is this characteristic of our times?
- For about a year I knew Ned Collins well
- It was snowing
- When I first came down to Londonā¦
- As for the Cambridgeā¦
- I recall the slender shoot of annoyanceā¦
- And now, in perverse conclusionā¦
- Copyright