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Infatuated with actress Audrey Hepburn, young Toshi comes of age in Tokyo, where he tries to make a living while balancing family secrets, American friends and lovers, and his own burgeoning identity. A first novel. Tour.
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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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- PublisherPocket Books
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0671526715
- ISBN 13 9780671526719
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages290
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