abstract:The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors. It is awarded to whom they judge to be the best writer or writers under the age of thirty-five of a book published in the past year.
With itshumorouslanguage and wonderful characterization, this book won the author the Somerset MaughamAward in 1961 and established his fameas "a portrayer ofstreetlife".