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 12
... wonder who remembers them now . In any case I think I have created a young man as futile as any of them . It also dates because the life it deals with has almost disappeared , the last lingering colonies of expatriates have now been ...
... wonder who remembers them now . In any case I think I have created a young man as futile as any of them . It also dates because the life it deals with has almost disappeared , the last lingering colonies of expatriates have now been ...
Page 27
... wonder Naylor fell madly in love with her . She spoke to no began to dance with the apache lady . " In the something traffic's boom , In the silence of my lonely room I think of you . ' The plaintive disturbing harmony floated out over ...
... wonder Naylor fell madly in love with her . She spoke to no began to dance with the apache lady . " In the something traffic's boom , In the silence of my lonely room I think of you . ' The plaintive disturbing harmony floated out over ...
Page 126
... much , he reflected , and then the private detective in him . began to wonder what her rake - off would have been . Or was he making a mistake in dealing with these people , in assuming that because they had 126 THE ROCK POOL.
... much , he reflected , and then the private detective in him . began to wonder what her rake - off would have been . Or was he making a mistake in dealing with these people , in assuming that because they had 126 THE ROCK POOL.
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