The hero of John Wain \'s classic novel is Charles Lumley, a young man fresh out of university and wondering what to do with the rest of his life.
He undergoes a string of comic misadventures as he works various jobs--from window cleaner to nightclub bouncer to drug trafficker--all the while try.
Feeling as though he has been born in captivity--the captivity of his bourgeois upbringing--Charles decides to escape by setting off on a picaresque and hilarious tour of 1950s England.
The hero of John Wain \'s classic novel is Charles Lumley, a young man fresh out of university and wondering what to do with the rest of his life