Jill

"Larkin, the finest British poet of his generation, has written only one other novel since [this one]. But Jill, written at the age of twenty-one and a work of remarkable assurance, makes it clear that his novelistic gifts, had he chosen to develop them, were potentially as impressive as his abilities as a poet....This is a beautifully written and observed novel, firm in its characterization and delicate in its evocation of autumnal Oxford in 1940....In his new Introduction, Larkin discusses the background of the novel in his own experience of wartime Oxford, and provides some forceful vignettes of Kingsley Amis as an undergraduate."Larkin, Philip is the author of 'Jill', published 2003 under ISBN 9780879519612 and ISBN 0879519614.