By John Braine
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The impressive writer of ROOM on the most sensible probes the obsessive ardour of a tender guy for an important older girl and the painful ordeal which needs to follow--the exorcism of wish, the shattering of bonds, the shaking off of a profound and strong impression.
"A masterful exploration of the numerous varieties of love. Compulsively readable...shows us what an outstandingly strong author he's; flashes of descriptive strength, subtleties of perception and instinct abound." (The Sunday occasions, London)
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Parlor, in the murmur of voices . from behind the frosted glass partition to the right, in the dark green of the sea through the windows to the left; and the search image for the sky meant merely that I was too intellectually snobbish to accept the terms which Maurice and the millions like Maurice would accept. We'd finished with religion and gone on to argue about Ulysses when Miranda entered. There is in most for the correct one pub into which an unaccompanied woman may go without being taken for a prostitute.
All appeals for nothing in charity — life in fact, all appeals for money straight into the waste-paper basket. questions about my work lished manuscripts or Days or indeed talk in can lecture tour, but I or give my for nothing And I —go don't answer opinion on unpub- open bazaars or address Speech public at all. I've done an Ameri- was well paid for that. enough to do all Miranda I get by. I don't have plenty of time or even I that I really want to do. But thanks to won't ever publish a novel like her third novel, about which I done.
JOHN BRAINE We both wore duffle coats, up, holding it down 51 supposedly ex-Navy sur- put my hood at the neck; the perforated eardrum which were fashionable plus, / at the time. I which kept me out of the forces had been giving me trouble, and a piercing cold wind had just sprung up. " It when he said it, but it wouldn't do for into the shop was exactly right narrative, because of the association of The Promenade cuffs. blow with fisti- looked desolate in the moonlight, through the duffle hood the swishing of the waves was transmuted into a rhythmic half the shops darkened; grunt.