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User Review  - Lachlan - Goodreads

Being a kind of ex-pat in Portugal myself who "likes it here", I read this brief novel from the 50s. The Portugal Amis evokes is the period of Salazar's despotic rule, but much of it is still very ... Read full review

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User Review  - Les Dangerfield - Goodreads

A weak novel. He must have felt that he could make some extra royalties out of stringing together his experiences in Portugal to form a novel. However it doesn't work. I bought it because I lived in Lisbon myself for 6 years in the 80s - but it brought few memories of that time back. Read full review

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User Review  - Tim - Goodreads

Amis: ergo, I liked it. But it's not among his best. Read full review

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User Review  - Kristina UK - Goodreads

Not much happens in this book, it plods along with characters that are funny and some eccentric and entertains you in a gentle way. Read full review

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User Review - Goodreads

Soothing and breezy, like certain old films in which nothing much happens but the sets are well-dressed and the dialog is clever (if unnatural) and the locale is exotic but safe. Martin Amis fans will ...

Review: I like it here

User Review  - Rob - Goodreads

A decent Amis: each sentence packed with wit (sometimes overstuffed) about a man who is forced to do something he hates and finds himself the same man he was afterwards. It lacked the depth of Lucky ... Read full review

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