The Rock Pool" ... satire of the British upper class, a smug young literary man from Oxford joins an international group of artists and writers on the French Riviera, intending to study them as if they were aquatic organisms in a pool--with unexpected results."--Goodreads |
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Page 77
... Jimmy thought the two greatest modern writers were Firbank and Hemingway . Naylor proposed Norman Doug- las , Eliot and Joyce . Jimmy praised Jurgen and The Great Gatsby , neither of which Naylor had heard of . He knew Gertrude Stein ...
... Jimmy thought the two greatest modern writers were Firbank and Hemingway . Naylor proposed Norman Doug- las , Eliot and Joyce . Jimmy praised Jurgen and The Great Gatsby , neither of which Naylor had heard of . He knew Gertrude Stein ...
Page 92
... Jimmy and he made his way to the top of the hill for the first time . At the summit was a church , an old castle of the Grimaldi , a little square with an amazing view , and Eddie's bar and Foster's villa . Toni and Sonia lived ...
... Jimmy and he made his way to the top of the hill for the first time . At the summit was a church , an old castle of the Grimaldi , a little square with an amazing view , and Eddie's bar and Foster's villa . Toni and Sonia lived ...
Page 198
... Jimmy in a borrowed roadster . He had got bored with his hair , which , still platinum at the ends , had now a black fuzz growing underneath it and was exactly parti- coloured , like a tapir's . Tahiti , in spite of the letters and ...
... Jimmy in a borrowed roadster . He had got bored with his hair , which , still platinum at the ends , had now a black fuzz growing underneath it and was exactly parti- coloured , like a tapir's . Tahiti , in spite of the letters and ...
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