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 60
... trying to bite him , and decided to change the subject . After all , as the challenged , he had choice of weapons . " Really ? What fun . What college were you at ? " " Sidney Sussex . " He's on the hop . " I'm afraid I don't know any ...
... trying to bite him , and decided to change the subject . After all , as the challenged , he had choice of weapons . " Really ? What fun . What college were you at ? " " Sidney Sussex . " He's on the hop . " I'm afraid I don't know any ...
Page 119
... tried to get Toni to go with him and his wife back to Borneo but his wife wasn't having any , so she took the child and ... trying to make a convert ; why , she even got Lola to leave the Corsican for two nights . It's the only thing she ...
... tried to get Toni to go with him and his wife back to Borneo but his wife wasn't having any , so she took the child and ... trying to make a convert ; why , she even got Lola to leave the Corsican for two nights . It's the only thing she ...
Page 121
... trying a little too hard to make people like her . " " What's she really doing now ? she think of Foster and Toni ? ” What does " Well , she really quite likes Toni , because Toni tried to make her leave Foster at first- you know how ...
... trying a little too hard to make people like her . " " What's she really doing now ? she think of Foster and Toni ? ” What does " Well , she really quite likes Toni , because Toni tried to make her leave Foster at first- you know how ...
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