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 12
... called Denis and Nigel and Stephen and had a tortured look . I wonder who remembers them now . In any case I think I have created a young man as futile as any of them . It also dates because the life it deals with has almost disappeared ...
... called Denis and Nigel and Stephen and had a tortured look . I wonder who remembers them now . In any case I think I have created a young man as futile as any of them . It also dates because the life it deals with has almost disappeared ...
Page 15
... called Montparnasse by the Sea . Now since the slump , since the fall of the pound and the dollar , the deserted town must resemble a buried site , a mound where an archaeologist delves for evidence of a vanished civilization , hoping ...
... called Montparnasse by the Sea . Now since the slump , since the fall of the pound and the dollar , the deserted town must resemble a buried site , a mound where an archaeologist delves for evidence of a vanished civilization , hoping ...
Page 92
... version , or Eddie had called Jimmy a fairy and Jimmy had thrown his drink in his face , or in a woman's face . It was either a very spirited or an effeminate action . On the roof of a villa , screened by orange 92 THE ROCK POOL.
... version , or Eddie had called Jimmy a fairy and Jimmy had thrown his drink in his face , or in a woman's face . It was either a very spirited or an effeminate action . On the roof of a villa , screened by orange 92 THE ROCK POOL.
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