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 83
... Trou - sur - Mer ; people there seemed to live an intense nocturnal secretive life , to be as shy of observation as an Indian reserve near a den- sely populated city . It had the tragic beauty of those communities that cannot survive in ...
... Trou - sur - Mer ; people there seemed to live an intense nocturnal secretive life , to be as shy of observation as an Indian reserve near a den- sely populated city . It had the tragic beauty of those communities that cannot survive in ...
Page 113
... Trou did not have any income : by an economic law the men had been the first to go and , as in Capri , the women , whose alimony was safer than their brothers ' allowances , had taken possession . But , unlike Capri , the site was not ...
... Trou did not have any income : by an economic law the men had been the first to go and , as in Capri , the women , whose alimony was safer than their brothers ' allowances , had taken possession . But , unlike Capri , the site was not ...
Page 136
... Trou , of which the Bastion's was one of the proudest , flushed again . Everybody looked clean and tropical in their shorts . Duff and Varna went about smiling with huge trays of glasses . It was the period when people were still ...
... Trou , of which the Bastion's was one of the proudest , flushed again . Everybody looked clean and tropical in their shorts . Duff and Varna went about smiling with huge trays of glasses . It was the period when people were still ...
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