Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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This startling first novel is a sinuous pagan rite. Faith is a sort of classic nymph, but instead of trees, rivers and mountains, she haunts galleries, fine restaurants and her tasteful London house. Jacques is an ageless satyr, but instead of tootling the pipes of Pan in some mythic glade...
Opiate Art. The story starts innocently enough. For Jacques, the sun trumpets reveille in a park. For Faith, the day begins at the dressing table, in a mood of ambiguous relief: her nice, ineffectual doctor husband has just left town for a convention. She trots off to a museum, where...
But there is plenty of raw nature later on, in Faith's shocked first view of Jacques, hirsute, leering and shamelessly voiding in the gutter. As the summer day becomes more oppressive, his face and form become obsessive-at a tea-shop window, in a doorway, clomping along with...
Future Novel. Author Kaye seems a little self-conscious about his aims-the setting up of organic v. organization man, authentic v. inauthentic life. As a neo-pagan body cultist, he is forced to deny the claims of mind and spirit and reduce the variety of human relationships to that...
Gerald Durrell once awakened in pain to find a squirrel assiduously stuffing a peanut in his ear. He has crawled into a cave to lasso a python. At various times, chimpanzees have commandeered his bed and bath, mongooses have suckled maternally under his shirt, and baby rodents have waited impatiently...