Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse Reviews
Description:ISBN 0140017836 / Genre: Fiction / Classic about a young man who invents his own fantasy world to escape a life of dreary responsibilites ... more
Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse ... in the 1950's.Newest Review: ... the country from invasion or have his entire family beheaded. Unfortunately Billy is unable to keep his imagination in ... more
... check. He lies almost instinctively, making up stories and presenting them as fact. He's lied about so much for so long that he is very good at it. He is engaged to two girls simultaneously, neither of whom he actually likes, and contrives to share one engagement ring between them. He has also told each of them different stories about his family, something he regrets when one of them is invited to tea. Then there is Liz, the girl he really cares for and to whom he is not engaged. Liz is an independent young woman ...more
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Customer Billy Liar - Keith Waterhouse Reviews (2)
by - written on 25/07/01, updated on 25/07/01 (Very useful, 2218 readings)
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The 1963 film Billy Liar, starring Tom Courtenay, has long been one of my favourites. There was also a TV series in the seventies of which I have fond memories. Yet for some reason I've never got round to reading the original novel. My loss. Billy Fisher is a teenager from a dull working class family in Stradhoughton, a dull working class Northern town. He lives with his family and works as a clerk in the local undertakers. Like many people, he finds solace in fantasy and escapes from his dreary life in to daydreams. Billy's daydreams are on a rather grander scale than most and he has developed a whole country called Ambrosia. In Ambrosia he can - ... Read the complete review
by - written on 18/05/01, updated on 18/05/01 (Very useful, 145 readings)
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I invite you to enter the kingdom of Ambrosia - a fantasy land invented by it's beloved President: Billy Fisher, in order to escape from the boring Yorkshire town of Stradhoughton in the 1950's. Billy is a compulsive liar - no, that's too harsh, he's a compulsive fantasist. Not so much an angry young man, as a feckless one. (I can't help wondering, what does 'feckless' mean in Ireland?) The book chronicles the events of one fateful Saturday during which all of Billy's lies begin to catch up with him. As well as daydreaming the day away in his beloved Ambrosia he spends most of his time thinking. (No, ... Read the complete review
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