The lost classic novel of a young man"s rebellion against his father, set against a backdrop of Jazz in 1940s London. A young man rebels against the stuffy future envisaged for him by his father, an upright Professor of Classics in a "red-brick" university. He runs away from school at the age of seventeen and becomes a jazz pianist in a low dive club in one of the seamier haunts of London. The year is 1942...