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 40
... gone on . " " Well , let's have another Pernod . " " O.K. " The filmy green drink with the fierce clear flavour was already beginning to work . " You know , this is the most intellectual booze , " said Rascasse . " It goes straight to ...
... gone on . " " Well , let's have another Pernod . " " O.K. " The filmy green drink with the fierce clear flavour was already beginning to work . " You know , this is the most intellectual booze , " said Rascasse . " It goes straight to ...
Page 104
... gone . Sup- pose we go to a ' house ' ? There're some pretty good ones round here . We could see a cinema . " " Why should they go ? Why should they leave us like that ? " " Do you miss them so much ? " " Yes . ' " " " Well , maybe they ...
... gone . Sup- pose we go to a ' house ' ? There're some pretty good ones round here . We could see a cinema . " " Why should they go ? Why should they leave us like that ? " " Do you miss them so much ? " " Yes . ' " " " Well , maybe they ...
Page 198
... gone back to Ajaccio to cook an election . Only once had he seen 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 ...
... gone back to Ajaccio to cook an election . Only once had he seen 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 ...
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