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Cargando... The Rock Pool (1936)por Cyril Connolly
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Droll humor and hints of some racy sex abound in this satire set on the French Riviera. Several of the conversations in untranslated French -- which bugs the hell out of me. The snob gets his own, but in a rather splotchy fashion not to my taste. ( ) More meaningful than I expected it to be: http://kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/recent-reads-the-rock-po... Edgar Naylor is holidaying alone in the south of France, and hops off the bus in the town of Trou-sur-Mer. It had been an artist's colony in the 1920s, a magnet for expatriate Americans, and Naylor conceives the idea of writing about it, thinking of it as an archeological excavation, Cnossus-sur-Mer. He has literary ambitions, but weak ones. He didn't finish his previous book; his current work, a biography of the banker-bard Samuel Rogers has been chosen for its ease: Continued The novel which Connolly could not find a publisher for in England was accepted by Obelisk Press in Paris, when Connolly met Jack Kahane in London and told him that he had written a 'forbidden' book. (See 'The Good Ship Venus' by John de St. Jorre, p.28). The book was later published in England. Call No. PC 1.3 sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
A classic novel, first published in 1936, now back in print. In this engaging 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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