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 27
... tried to remember the quotation . The music stopped and he went over to Ras- casse . " Who was that girl that just came in ? " " Oh , so you like the look of her 27 THE ROCK POOL whom Georgian poets delighted to people the ...
... tried to remember the quotation . The music stopped and he went over to Ras- casse . " Who was that girl that just came in ? " " Oh , so you like the look of her 27 THE ROCK POOL whom Georgian poets delighted to people the ...
Page 77
... tried to convey something of the gloom , the boredom of the halls and the sitting - rooms , the Sunday lunches , the plates of anchovy toast in the fender , the afternoons spent in running up bills in shops so as to have something to do ...
... tried to convey something of the gloom , the boredom of the halls and the sitting - rooms , the Sunday lunches , the plates of anchovy toast in the fender , the afternoons spent in running up bills in shops so as to have something to do ...
Page 121
... tried to make her leave Foster at first- you know how little Toni can't bear to see a woman with a man . ' " " " I thought it was a man with a woman . " " " " O hell ! Anyhow when Foster fell so hard for Toni she thought he'd get a ...
... tried to make her leave Foster at first- you know how little Toni can't bear to see a woman with a man . ' " " " I thought it was a man with a woman . " " " " O hell ! Anyhow when Foster fell so hard for Toni she thought he'd get a ...
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