She won't elaborate, and laughs as she throws the hot egg pan in the sink. She warns him, in a cryptic statement, not to let Veronica get away with too much. One morning he goes downstairs and finds that he and Veronica's mother, Sarah, are the only ones still at home. Tony is uncomfortable with the way he perceives he is being looked down upon as lower class. Soon his girlfriend, Veronica, asks him to spend the weekend with her at her family's home. Tony goes to Bristol and starts dating seriously for the first time.
When a boy in their class hangs himself because a girl he slept with gets pregnant, they spend hours discussing the philosophical issues around knowing exactly what happened when everything they know about the death comes from rumors.Īfter graduating, Adrian moves on to Cambridge University, one of the top two universities in England. Adrian Finn is the cleverest of the group, answering teachers' questions with complex philosophical arguments. Tony is still in high school, where he has a close group of three friends. Tony, a sixty-year-old retired arts administrator who lives in London, goes back in his memory to the early 1960s. A shiny inner wrist, a hot pan steaming in a sink, ejaculate being washed down a drain, a river rushing backward. The novel opens with its protagonist and narrator, Tony Webster, recalling fragmented images that have returned to him.
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