Floating Down to Camelot

[1] When Bill, an impoverished Cambridge student, is even unable to pay for his mother's funeral, his thoughts turn to crime.

"[5] Another central character, Helen, an undergraduate reading English literature, lacks stability in her life and finds her main solace in poetry and particularly in the romantic medieval work of Tennyson.

"[7] By buying a Donald Duck mask for bank robbing purposes, Bill unwittingly identifies himself with the rapist.

[6] According to one critic, "Floating Down to Camelot is a merciless novel about the loss of landmarks and the state of disorder in the contemporary English society.

"[6] Another analysis suggests that "the narrator of David Benedictus's Floating Down to Camelot epitomizes the ludic quest...