The HippopotamusSoho Press, 1994 - 292 Seiten I've suffered for my art, now its your turn. So begins the tale of Ted Wallace, known (unaffectionately) as the Hippopotamus. Failed poet, failed theater critic, failed father and husband, Ted has his faults too: he is a shameless womanizer, drinks too much, and is at odds in his cranky but maddeningly logical way with most of modern life. Fired from his newspaper, Ted seeks a few months' repose and free liquor at Swafford Hall, the country mansion of his old friend Michael Logan, to whose beautiful and mysterious son David, Ted is godfather. |
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... allow to do such a thing . " A properly signed and dated cheque for one hundred thousand pounds lay on my lap in front of me . My bank had a branch near South Ken tube station . I could be out of the house and filling in a deposit slip ...
... allow to do such a thing . " A properly signed and dated cheque for one hundred thousand pounds lay on my lap in front of me . My bank had a branch near South Ken tube station . I could be out of the house and filling in a deposit slip ...
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... allow traffic in Piccadilly to flow in both di- rections I would probably never notice , because I always think of Piccadilly as a two - way street , for all that it must be decades since they buggered it up . Now , here in East Anglia ...
... allow traffic in Piccadilly to flow in both di- rections I would probably never notice , because I always think of Piccadilly as a two - way street , for all that it must be decades since they buggered it up . Now , here in East Anglia ...
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... allow Cambric entrée into the drawing rooms of the mighty but not quite enough to free him of his whiff of impropriety . Any- way - I draw breath - all this has a point , because one Chel- tenham Gold Cup day in the mid - Seventies I ...
... allow Cambric entrée into the drawing rooms of the mighty but not quite enough to free him of his whiff of impropriety . Any- way - I draw breath - all this has a point , because one Chel- tenham Gold Cup day in the mid - Seventies I ...
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