Jonathan Coe 
Touch of Love [EPUB ebook] 

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A Touch of Love is Jonathan Coe’s delightfully comic and moving novel about not fitting in Robin, a postgraduate student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once spent hours discussing their theories, but they somehow never made it into print.Now his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn’t understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing his secret obsessions and frustrations.Then, when an unfortunate and embarrassing incident in a public park lands him in serious trouble, Robin’s life finally spirals out of control. . .A Touch of Love is a brilliant, bittersweet book that will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls, Nick Hornby and lovers of comic fiction.’A magnetic, moving tale’ Observer’Very funny’ The Times Literary Supplement’Witty and astringently intelligent’ Guardian Jonathan Coe’s novels are filled with moving, astute observations of life and love, and are written with a revealing honesty that has captivated a generation of readers. His other titles, The Accidental Woman, The Rotters’ Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse prize), The Closed Circle, The Dwarves of Death, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, The House of Sleep (winner of the 1998 Prix M dicis tranger), A Touch of Love, What a Carve Up! (winner of the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), Middle England (Costa Novel Award), Mr Wilder and Me and Bournville are all available in Penguin paperback. Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe’s unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence, is available to order now!

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 240 ● ISBN 9780141916903 ● Publisher Penguin Books Ltd ● Published 2008 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2269179 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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