Hoi Polloi is about innocence and experience. See-sawing between low-life and high-life, it depicts a mother and father who are comical, terrifying and unique. It finds fresh and hilarious things to say about growing up. Hoi Polloi is an instant classic about raw youth and the ways of the world.d...
His brassy-haired head is tilted back, his hands are in his pockets. His knee is bent forward and to the side. He is only a pleb, used by teaching staff to relay messages to boys, and yet he stands there like that as if superior to me. I am wanted by a master. I am to wait outside the staff room....
I was doing some fishing of my own. I was hoping she’d say she’d miss the plague too. I could then follow up with a clever line. Exactly what that line would be I wasn’t sure—I was too out of practice to swagger smooth lechery. I was grateful when she didn’t speak: I hadn’t embarrassed myself by ...