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Billy Liar

(1959)
(The first book in the Billy Liar series)
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When Keith Waterhouse?s comic novel Billy Liar was first published in 1959, rave reviews compared it to Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, Colin MacInnes's Absolute Beginners, J D Salinger's Catcher in the Rye, and other 'youth cult novels'. Billy Liar is a regional comedy about a youth who attempts to escape his dull family life through fantasy.


Genre: General Fiction

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