JillThe novel is set in wartime Oxford, the city in which it was written. Protagonist John Kemp is a young man from "Huddlesford" in Lancashire, who goes up to Oxford. With great sympathy it analyses his emotions at this first experience of privileged southern life (he had never been south of Crewe). Socially awkward and inexperienced, Kemp is attracted by the reckless and dissipated life of his roommate Christopher Warner, a well-off southerner who has attended a minor public school, tellingly called "Lamprey College". The eponymous Jill is Kemp's imaginary sister, whom he invents to confound Warner. Kemp then discovers a real-life Jill called Gillian, the 15-year-old cousin of Warner's friend Elizabeth. Kemp becomes infatuated with Gillian, but his advances are thwarted by Elizabeth and rebuffed by Gillian |
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... Christo and Jeanne - Claude were living in a downtown loft , which they fixed with money borrowed from an old friend . As collateral for their bill at the Chelsea they left the owner , Stanley Bard , one of the Store Front projects Christo ...
... Christo and Jeanne - Claude were living in a downtown loft , which they fixed with money borrowed from an old friend . As collateral for their bill at the Chelsea they left the owner , Stanley Bard , one of the Store Front projects Christo ...
Page 157
... Christo's mind when we spoke . Fineberg : How much control do you really want to have over the use of television and media and films in relation to your projects ? Christo : Do you mean to include the post - object situation of the work ...
... Christo's mind when we spoke . Fineberg : How much control do you really want to have over the use of television and media and films in relation to your projects ? Christo : Do you mean to include the post - object situation of the work ...
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... Christo was that he was an older gentleman from England with a garden that was open to the public , having never been to England at that point . We were con- cerned that we were going to have a cranky old codger for a guest . When Christo ...
... Christo was that he was an older gentleman from England with a garden that was open to the public , having never been to England at that point . We were con- cerned that we were going to have a cranky old codger for a guest . When Christo ...
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