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Synopsis
'Extraordinarily evocative of the mishmash of cultures and mores which is modern Japan ...Alan Brown captures, with great sympathy, the isolation of a man whose best friend is a wealthy, gay American, whose girlfriends are always American, but whose parents do not speak to one another, nor to him, and who have offered him no hint of his own history ...a lovely book. It made me laugh, it made me cry, and it taught me lots I did not know about another country. You cannot ask much more of a novel' The Times
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Alan Brown's first novel is a comic tale of sexual desire and bad manners set in contemporary Tokyo. Twenty-three-year-old cartoonist Toshi is obsessed with slim American women, and his best friend, an American named Paul, is obsessed with Japanese men. Toshi begins having an affair with Jane, his English teacher, who turns out to be insane; Paul has an endless stream of Japanese boyfriends all of whom leave him. Audrey Hepburn's Neck is slyly funny and very observant. Brown is equally concerned with sex as an obsession and the erotics of cultural differences, but his comic masterstrokes are in being able to conjure up the humor in looking for sex and the sometimes tragedy in getting it. Audrey Hepburn's Neck is resonant, charming and very witty.
About the Author
Alan Brown was born in Pennsylvania in 1950. In 1987 he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to go to Japan, where he lived until 1995, writing on culture for the Los Angeles Times and contributing travel articles for Travel and Leisure magazine. He also published a bi-lingual comic and was dialogue coach to the Japanese star in the Michael Douglas film Black Rain. Since 1990 he has been a cultural correspondent and programme host for BBC Radio 3.
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- PublisherSceptre
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0340659831
- ISBN 13 9780340659830
- BindingPaperback
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