Milton Johanides

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The Songs We Sang At Trollope's (eBook, ePUB)

No 3 in The Cypriot's Treasure Series

Beschreibung

Yuri is a big success at his public school, Trollope's Independent, and seems destined for greatness, but when he fails to get into Oxford University he has to adjust his ambitions. Doing work on the side for his gangster uncle seems like harmless fun to begin with but before long he finds himself deep in trouble. The dominant girls in his life compete only with the nagging of his over ambitious mother when it comes to being a permanent irritation, so when he gets the chance to break free and be lead singer in a campus rock band he grabs it with both hands. Set in the liberating seventies when anything seemed possible, The Songs We Sang At Trollopes takes a nostalgic look back to a time of guilty pleasures and inappropriate behaviour, when Greenham Common provided the hope for a better age and lying down in front of bulldozers seemed like a good way to prevent the destruction of the ecosystem.

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In The Songs We Sang At Trollopes, the third and final instalment of the trilogy narrated by Euripides Aristopoulos, the narrator, known at his school as Yuri, shows us what it was like to live in the seventies. How can Yuri take the lessons his has learned from his grandfather and put them to good use in a Thatcherite world of growing riches and shrinking government responsibility? Johanides has to find a new home for his themes of religion and God writing about an age which spurned both in favour of "a little bit of what you fancy does you good!" Moral dilemmas abound and ethical behaviour takes second place to the wealth grab which is putting the planet at risk and treating ordinary people like commodities. Johanides illustrates through this satirical tale how the geopolitical positioning of the early part of the twenty-first century was seeded and how the little man, after a brief resurgence, was relegated once more to a state of servility. Here, Uncle Vaz represents the unacceptable face of capitalism and his links with corrupt government create an environment every bit as toxic as those faced by Yuri's grandfather during an earlier age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lulu.com
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781471727153
• Artikelnr.: 63756236