# You Can't Do Both

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- Book: [You Can't Do Both](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/you-cant-do-both) ([You Can't Do Both.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis/you-cant-do-both.md))
- Authors: [Kingsley Amis](https://www.bookquiver.com/kingsley-amis)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- ISBN: 978-00-9946-102-9
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2012-04-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets Nancy Bennett, a young woman even less worldly than himself. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have his cake and eat it.