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THE NOWHERE MAN
The Jonathan Three: Volume 1
Roy Holland
  UK
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THE NOWHERE MAN
by Roy Holland |
UK price:
£9.89
US price: $17.95
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-0-9559741-0-6
Published: July-2008
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A young man in Birmingham, in the
sixties, escapes the humdrum mundanity
of life through fantasies, tries to find
himself, and finally escapes his
dead-end lifestyle by gaining a place at
a university.
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Keywords
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Birmingham
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Draughtsman
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Picaresque hero
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Lucky Jim
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Kingsley Amis
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Frailty of love
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Character Novel
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Sex
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Sixties
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Angry Young Men
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Book Description
This
is an entertaining story about a picaresque young man of the
early nineteen-sixties. While he disbelieves almost everybody
and habitually escapes his circumstances through comic
fantasies, he tries to discover his identity, his niche, and his
girl, in an authoritarian world he resents. He tries to escape
his working-class milieu by reaching a university.
This is the first part of a
trilogy where the main themes are the frailty of love (and of
loyalty), and the durability of betrayal. Or to express it
differently – the mortality of love and the immortality of
betrayal. In the face of the gigantic and intricate mystery of
the Universe, the last great act of celebration is to believe,
and the last great act of belief is to celebrate.
About the author
Roy Holland was born in Birmingham. He went to Africa in 1966 to
teach in the universities of the Boleswa countries. In 1971 he
went to Greece for three years. He and his family lived on the
island of Levkas for six months, the Gulf of Corinth for a
similar period, and in Corfu for a little over two years. He
wrote full-time until 1974, when he returned to the U.K. and
worked on a research project until returning to Africa in 1977.
Thereafter he lived in Southern Africa and worked in
universities in Zimbabwe, Lebowa and Venda. He was Professor of
English at the University of the North, the University of Venda,
as well as Dean of the Faculty of Arts in the later 80's. He
retired early to write full-time, and now lives in Ledbury,
Herefordshire.
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Other works by Roy Holland:
JOURNEY TOWARDS HIMSELF 
by Roy Holland |
UK price:
£8.99
US price: $17.95
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-0-9559741-1-3
Published: July-2008
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A hilarious evocation of life as a
student at Cambridge University in the
sixties, shortly after the time of such
notable figures as F. R. Leavis, C.S.
Lewis and E.M. Forster.
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NOW LEAD ME HOME
by Roy Holland
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UK price:
£10.99
US price: $21.95
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
Pages: 262
ISBN: 978-0-9559741-2-0
Published: July-2008
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In this third book of the ‘Jonathan
Three’, the experiences conveyed by the
protagonist’s stream-of-consciousness
place the reader in the mind of the
young man who eventually finds real love
and meaning in a fulfilling
relationship.
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THE WAKING & MAKING OF PAUL GAUGUIN
A Play for Voices
by Roy Holland |
UK price:
£6.99
US price: $15.02
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
Pages: 98
ISBN: 978-0-9559741-3-7
Published: July-2008
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It was during his illness, in 1887,
when Gauguin was 39 years old, that the
battle dramatised in this play – a
battle imagined in his body, and in his
mind, and in his moral nature – could
have taken place
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ALAN PATON SPEAKING
The Lintrose Conversations:
Interview with Alan Paton
by Roy Holland
edited by Charles Muller |
UK price:
£14.60
US price: $28.95
Publisher: DIADEM BOOKS
Format: Paperback:
Perfect binding , cream interior
Size : 6 x 9 (US trade)
Pages: 114
ISBN: 978-0-9559741-4-4
Published: August-2008
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This interview with
Alan Paton by Roy
Holland has never, until
now, been published. The
interview took place on
June 19 and June 20,
1973, when Holland was a
guest in Paton’s home,
Lintrose, at Bothas
Hill, Kloof, Natal. It
provides many insights
into Paton’s life, his
political involvement as
the founder of the
Liberal party in South
Africa, and his
writings.
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Contact the author by email: roy@royholland.fsnet.co.uk
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