You Can't Do Both

Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama which takes him from school to Oxford. With him we live through all the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London, and on through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, seduction and commitment. You Can't Do Both is Amis as you know him - brilliantly funny, outrageous, and alive to every social nuance; but also as you've never known him before, writing with tenderness and compelling insight in a story which is strongly autobiographical.