Book Review: The Champion: Loadsamoney but Not Much Sense
The Scotsman › February 20, 2011
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The Champion by Tim Binding Picador, 434pp, GBP12.99
The Champion belongs to a well-established genre: the Condition of England novel. It is set in the Eighties, Thatcher's England, moving into the Nineties, and the theme is a familiar one: brash new money coming up against the stuffy and ineffectual ethos of the conventional, established middle-class.See the full content of this document
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Book Review: The Champion: Loadsamoney but Not Much Sense
The setting is a market-town in Kent where the narrator, Charles Pemberton, attends a minor public school, of which his father is a governor. The champion of the title is Clark "Large" Rossiter, a Londoner, ...
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