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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... steps to winter , her blue cap sat on a bun of brown hair . In a crib in the sun room off the vestibule I crawled . And reached through wooden bars to tug at plants sitting on their white gleaming pedestals . And touched where a ...
... steps to winter , her blue cap sat on a bun of brown hair . In a crib in the sun room off the vestibule I crawled . And reached through wooden bars to tug at plants sitting on their white gleaming pedestals . And touched where a ...
Pàgina 2
J. P. Donleavy. Winter went away down warming steps to spring . The vesti- bule plants crushed together against the window . On a June dawn the big black car with the footrests sticking from the fuzzy floor drove west north west from ...
J. P. Donleavy. Winter went away down warming steps to spring . The vesti- bule plants crushed together against the window . On a June dawn the big black car with the footrests sticking from the fuzzy floor drove west north west from ...
Pàgina 4
... steps and run and run on the wet grass along the drive to the black road . Where his feet felt the warmth and stuck in the softened tar . Then hands jumping out of the vast night grabbed him from behind . The strong arms of Pierre . Who ...
... steps and run and run on the wet grass along the drive to the black road . Where his feet felt the warmth and stuck in the softened tar . Then hands jumping out of the vast night grabbed him from behind . The strong arms of Pierre . Who ...
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... carpet of this high domed marble pillared foyer . Down a long oak panelled hall past portraits of ministers , presidents and kings . He held out an arm at a doorway into a Winter went away down warming steps to spring . The 9 30.
... carpet of this high domed marble pillared foyer . Down a long oak panelled hall past portraits of ministers , presidents and kings . He held out an arm at a doorway into a Winter went away down warming steps to spring . The 9 30.
Pàgina 10
J. P. Donleavy. Winter went away down warming steps to spring . The vesti- bule plants crushed together against the window . On a June dawn the big black car with the footrests sticking from the fuzzy floor drove west north west from ...
J. P. Donleavy. Winter went away down warming steps to spring . The vesti- bule plants crushed together against the window . On a June dawn the big black car with the footrests sticking from the fuzzy floor drove west north west from ...
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