Nick Jenkins, Isobel Tolland, Kenneth Widmerpool

Anthony Burgess liked this lots––so don't be held off because of its length––but if you're ready to read this many pages, why not read Proust's In Search of Lost Time instead, then this will seem a lot shorter and briefer by comparison.

Still on my bookshelf to read.

The men at work at the corner of the street had made a kind of camp for themselves, where, marked out by tripods hung with red-hurricane lamps, an abyss in the road led down to a network of subterranean drain-pipes.

1950 to 1959 Beat Generation