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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... walked hand in hand through a dark long passage . A brown door and into a sky lighted room . A gentleman with a great beak of nose and thin greying hair . His deep voice booming as he shook hands with Uncle Edouard and bowed to the big ...
... walked hand in hand through a dark long passage . A brown door and into a sky lighted room . A gentleman with a great beak of nose and thin greying hair . His deep voice booming as he shook hands with Uncle Edouard and bowed to the big ...
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... walked a rapid tight circle at the distant end of the hall , nervously entwining his hands and mumbling . " We will stamp out smuttiness . We shall have straight little backs and sound bottoms . No smut here . " October trees dropping ...
... walked a rapid tight circle at the distant end of the hall , nervously entwining his hands and mumbling . " We will stamp out smuttiness . We shall have straight little backs and sound bottoms . No smut here . " October trees dropping ...
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... walked along the Channel shore . She said in the grey heavens over England it rains on a quiet and contented land . " Mrs. Twinkle thank you so much for having us . ' Outside warmed with late sunlight red and gold through the trees ...
... walked along the Channel shore . She said in the grey heavens over England it rains on a quiet and contented land . " Mrs. Twinkle thank you so much for having us . ' Outside warmed with late sunlight red and gold through the trees ...
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