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 36
... games in suburban gardens , where the rhodo- dendron and fruition - scented privet yearly bloom- ed ; as a schoolboy , where the bare arms of his neighbours lying across uncharted ink- channels had warmed 36 THE ROCK POOL.
... games in suburban gardens , where the rhodo- dendron and fruition - scented privet yearly bloom- ed ; as a schoolboy , where the bare arms of his neighbours lying across uncharted ink- channels had warmed 36 THE ROCK POOL.
Page 59
... arms covered with piqures and came with a fat ginger - haired girl friend . There were one or two more American painters , tousled , and earnestly drinking , and the same large woman of two nights before in her workman's cap . The ...
... arms covered with piqures and came with a fat ginger - haired girl friend . There were one or two more American painters , tousled , and earnestly drinking , and the same large woman of two nights before in her workman's cap . The ...
Page 225
... arms clung round him , her eyes closed , drowsy with passion . After such scenes they would find the days fuller , and Naylor would lie on the sofa while she cooked some eggs . He rarely visited the hotel as Ruby's credit was better ...
... arms clung round him , her eyes closed , drowsy with passion . After such scenes they would find the days fuller , and Naylor would lie on the sofa while she cooked some eggs . He rarely visited the hotel as Ruby's credit was better ...
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