num_pages: 288
description: As he makes his way through the 1960s from his suburban Chicago high school to Harvard and on to graduate studies at Oxford, Ben Janis continues to lust after girls and the literary life. (Nancy Pearl)
language: English
title: The Great Pretender
titlecomplete: The Great Pretender (Contemporary American Fiction)
genres: Fiction
ratings_count: 33
places: Chicago, Illinois, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, Oxford University, Oxford, England
publisher: Penguin Books