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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... woman all the way from Capri . She had large flabby arms covered with piqures and came with a fat ginger - haired girl friend . There were one or two more American painters , tousled , and earnestly drinking , and the same large woman ...
... woman all the way from Capri . She had large flabby arms covered with piqures and came with a fat ginger - haired girl friend . There were one or two more American painters , tousled , and earnestly drinking , and the same large woman ...
Page 92
... woman for whom he had given . up so much and gathered there had been some kind of fight . Either Eddie and Jimmy had ... woman's face . It was either a very spirited or an effeminate action . On the roof of a villa , screened by orange ...
... woman for whom he had given . up so much and gathered there had been some kind of fight . Either Eddie and Jimmy had ... woman's face . It was either a very spirited or an effeminate action . On the roof of a villa , screened by orange ...
Page 121
... 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 lesson , but when she found that he didn't mind her being queer , that he didn't ask for ...
... 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 lesson , but when she found that he didn't mind her being queer , that he didn't ask for ...
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