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Previous owners inscription to front free endpaper. Keith waterhouse has 62 books on goodreads with 7492 ratings. He has written extensively for film, tv and newspapers, and his play jeffrey barnard is unwell was a west end hit in the 1990s. Publication date 19981009 topics bbc radio reading. Boards are moderately marked and have wear to edges, bumping to corners, some crushing and fraying to spine.
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Sep 04, 2009 british writer keith waterhouse, whose best known novel billy liar shone a light on life in a drab postwar england, died friday at his london home, his family said. Billy fisher is a young man of 19 living in the yorkshire town of stradhoughton. This classic british movie is based on the novel and play written by keith waterhouse tells the story of billy fisher, a young man who finds it difficult to see the difference between reality and imagination in 1960s england. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 187 pages and is available in mass market paperback format. They first worked together 32 years ago when they turned waterhouses.
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