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 9
... dark suits and dark umbrellas , and their habit of beginning every sentence with " We are afraid " , has nipped off more promising buds than it has stimulated . I Most writers , of course , are not greatly hampered a philosophy not ...
... dark suits and dark umbrellas , and their habit of beginning every sentence with " We are afraid " , has nipped off more promising buds than it has stimulated . I Most writers , of course , are not greatly hampered a philosophy not ...
Page 22
... dark , with wide - set blue eyes . She had something expectant and glis- tening about her , like a penguin waiting for a fish . Her voice , when she spoke , was musical yet insistent , with an alarming up - to - date gover- ness quality ...
... dark , with wide - set blue eyes . She had something expectant and glis- tening about her , like a penguin waiting for a fish . Her voice , when she spoke , was musical yet insistent , with an alarming up - to - date gover- ness quality ...
Page 238
... darkness under the planes . But he was forgetting Toni . Now she would be putting the studs in her shirt , brushing ... dark . The Chleuh boys , members of that rebel tribe whose maidens required a French soldier's testicles from every ...
... darkness under the planes . But he was forgetting Toni . Now she would be putting the studs in her shirt , brushing ... dark . The Chleuh boys , members of that rebel tribe whose maidens required a French soldier's testicles from every ...
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