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 188
... Tahiti . Unpopularity . Sex . Sex . Tahiti . Unpopularity . Money . Instead , he went out for a walk ; the landscape was settling into autumn , the clouds returned after the rain , the air was wet and stagnant 188 THE ROCK POOL.
... Tahiti . Unpopularity . Sex . Sex . Tahiti . Unpopularity . Money . Instead , he went out for a walk ; the landscape was settling into autumn , the clouds returned after the rain , the air was wet and stagnant 188 THE ROCK POOL.
Page 198
... Tahiti , driving slowly through the rain on the road to Cannes with 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 ...
... Tahiti , driving slowly through the rain on the road to Cannes with 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 ...
Page 232
... Tahiti or something not unlike it , yet capable of receiving from Toni a violent emotional shock . Even to Rascasse and Jimmy , though not his friends , he was mysteriously attached . Was this the lesson of Trou ? That there were ...
... Tahiti or something not unlike it , yet capable of receiving from Toni a violent emotional shock . Even to Rascasse and Jimmy , though not his friends , he was mysteriously attached . Was this the lesson of Trou ? That there were ...
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