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William Leith25 October 2012
Noughties
by Ben Masters
(Penguin, £8.99)
Eliot Lamb is a brilliant, self-conscious, scathing student and it’s his last day at Oxford. He’s sitting at a “cock-heavy” table in a pub, with his best mates Scott, Jack and Sanjay. He tells us about “the poetry of the pub” — the stifling atmosphere, the customers, the rhythms of his bladder. It’s an important night for him: he’s haunted by two women and, as he puts it, “Now is the time to grow a pair.” A lovely debut.
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