Misspent Youth

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Macmillan
Publisher Place: Basingstoke
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 357 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. It Is Forty Years Into The Future, And Decades Of Research.The First Subject Chosen For Treatment Is Jeff Baker.After Eighteen Months In A German Medical Facility, The Seventy Eight Year Old Patient Returns Home Looking Like A Healthy Twenty Year Old.

Publishers Description: Peter Hamilton is famed for SF blockbusters of far-future interstellar adventure. By contrast Misspent Youth is a social comedy set in the year 2040 in England. When gene therapy rewinds Jeff Bakers age back to his early 20s he finds that wisdom and experience are no match for hormones... The rejuvenation treatment, developed by federal Europe to impress laggard America, is so complex and expensive that only one person every 18 months can receive it. Jeff is the first because hes a celebrity inventor, father of the "datasphere" which superseded the Internet. Family upheavals follow. An "arrangement" with his much younger, still beautiful wife Sue lets her enjoy lovers while the aged Jeff turns a blind now things are different. Meanwhile their 18-year-old son Tim is struggling ineptly with teenage sexual pangs and the impossibility of understanding girls. All part of growing up, but Jeffs renewed youth brings farcical complications. Its not just that Jeff now fancies Sue again. He cant resist even younger women. An early one-night stand is publicised all over the datasphere. Embarrassment escalates when hes seduced by the granddaughter of a long-time pub companion. Worse, several of Tims ravishing female schoolmates are interested in Jeff the celebrity stud. The dishiest of all is Tims latest, most hopelessly adoring girlfriend. Can it be coincidence that the action mostly happens in Rutland This comedy of embarrassments and revelations has a darker Europe is plagued by separatist movements whose terrorist habits make the old IRA look like pussycats. The turning point in Jeffs tangled relationships comes when he attends a London conference surrounded by protest that breeds riot--with Tim among the protesters. A foreshadowed twist leads to a finale that mixes cynicism with sentiment. En route Misspent Youth is a lot of fun. -- David Langford

ISBN: 9780333900697