The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar BGrove/Atlantic, Inc., 1 de des. 2007 - 416 pàgines The sexual odyssey of a hopeless romantic from the author of the legendary bestseller The Ginger Man—“a comic writer rivaling Waugh and Wodehouse” (Life). In the years before and after World War II, Balthazar B is the world’s last shy, elegant young man. Born to riches in Paris and raised by his solicitous governess, Balthazar is shipped away to prep school in England where he is befriended by the noble but flagrantly naughty Beefy. Together, Balthazar and Beefy matriculate to Trinity College, Dublin. There, Balthazar reads zoology and Beefy prepares for holy orders, all the while sharing amorous adventures high and low until their university careers come to an abrupt and decidedly unholy end. Out of the cocooned, innocent sexuality of Balthazar B, J. P. Donleavy—one of the most vital, and often condemned, comic voices of the twentieth century—created “one of the most perfect love affairs in modern literature . . . revelatory and delightful . . . lush and lovely, bawdy and sad” (The New York Times). “If Nancy Mitford and James Joyce had collaborated, the result might have been like the adventures of Balthazar B.” —The Guardian |
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Pàgina 1
... blue pram on pebbled paths under the tall trees . And as May branches were pressing out their green tips of new leaves he was taken on this warm sunny day across the river , through portals , a court- yard and under musty military flags ...
... blue pram on pebbled paths under the tall trees . And as May branches were pressing out their green tips of new leaves he was taken on this warm sunny day across the river , through portals , a court- yard and under musty military flags ...
Pàgina 3
... blue with cold . Nannie leans close with big brown eyes and round smiling cheeks . To seal the day , she said . With a kiss . And not to worry little boy about dreams , no big sea away on the shore will come pound- ing and foaming down ...
... blue with cold . Nannie leans close with big brown eyes and round smiling cheeks . To seal the day , she said . With a kiss . And not to worry little boy about dreams , no big sea away on the shore will come pound- ing and foaming down ...
Pàgina 4
... blue stuffed elephant Tillie tightly to his breast . And little dog Spot whined and moaned between his legs . High in the attic room in the big house in the little Paris square , nannie whispered God love you little boy . His wrists no ...
... blue stuffed elephant Tillie tightly to his breast . And little dog Spot whined and moaned between his legs . High in the attic room in the big house in the little Paris square , nannie whispered God love you little boy . His wrists no ...
Pàgina 9
... blue . The air cool inside the high wide thick doors . Balthazar's mother in her black laces , veils and chiffons ascends alone in the tiny lift . There she is as we come puffing up five flights of wide pink marble stairs , curved and ...
... blue . The air cool inside the high wide thick doors . Balthazar's mother in her black laces , veils and chiffons ascends alone in the tiny lift . There she is as we come puffing up five flights of wide pink marble stairs , curved and ...
Pàgina 11
... blue across the rooftops . Maître flinching at the splintering shatter of thunder . The young man in the grey suit and flattened gleaming black hair closed the windows . Uncle Edouard tak- ing deep breaths and sighing , ah ozone , ozone ...
... blue across the rooftops . Maître flinching at the splintering shatter of thunder . The young man in the grey suit and flattened gleaming black hair closed the windows . Uncle Edouard tak- ing deep breaths and sighing , ah ozone , ozone ...
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afternoon Alphonsine arms Avenue Foch awfully Baldoyle Balthazar Bayswater Road Beefy Beefy's Bella blue breasts Breda brown chap Church of Ireland cold curlers dark dear boy Donnybrook door dressing Dublin eyes face feel fingers gentleman girl give glass gleaming goodbye granny grass green grey hair hall hand head hear holy orders horse Infanta Jacques Knightsbridge lady Landship laugh legs light lips little boy look madam Masterdon Millicent Miss Fitzdare Miss Hortense morning mother Myles nannie never nice night one's Paris pulling pushing Rathgar Rebecca shout sixty four Slouch smile sorry stairs stand staring steak tartar Stephen's Green steps stood stop street Sure taxi tell thing trees trustees turn Uncle Edouard voice wait walked wall watch waved what's window