Saturday 2 January 1971

Strike the Father Dead - John Wain

Book Details

Country: UK
Language: English
Genre: Modern Fiction
Publisher: World Books
Publication Date: 1963


Fictional Artist: Percy Brett
Genre: Jazz
Country: UK
Real World Analogue: N/A

Jacket Blurb
A young man rebels against the stuff future envisaged for him by his father, an upright Professor of Classics in a 'red-brick' university. He runs away from school at the age of seventeen and becomes a jazz painist in a low dive club in one of the seamier haunts of London. The year is 1942...

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