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...Horse's Mouth it is the turn of Artist Gulley Jimson, one of man-eating Sara's three ex-husbands, to take the story on its final rounds. Gulley comes prancing out of jail into the middle of the picture on Page One and except for a brief retirement (a six-month stretch for stealing a wealthy patron's diamond-studded snuffboxes) he holds the center of the stage to the very...
...Will to Live. Author Gary's theme is simple. He sees Gulley Jimson as he saw fertile Sara Monday-as the epitome of the will to live and to create at all costs. Starvation, jail and beatings-up mean only one thing to dedicated Artist-Genius Gulley-they tend to interrupt his work. And because his work in middle age must proceed faster than ever, Gulley will stop at nothing to get himself food, money and time...
From his filthy headquarters on the Thames waterfront, a shed where he is vainly struggling with a mural of The Fall, Gulley sallies forth to bleed the rich like an impecunious vampire ("Artists," he says, "owe a debt to millionaires that can never be repaid, except in cash"). His only lucky break comes when he invades the swank apartment of a holidaying rich man and, after jimmying the food closets and the wine cellar and pawning the silver service, dreamily proceeds to daub The Raising of Lazarus on the wall over the antique sideboard. But in two ticks Gulley himself...
...False & Unfriendly." When the Mondays' house was invaded by Gulley Jimson, a ne'er-do-well painter, Sara's troubles came to a head. A family friend, whose conclusions were "false, and what was worse, unfriendly," tattled to Matt, and domestic peace was destroyed. Matt wasted away and Sara ran off with Gulley. Sara was happy, for Gulley "was the most of a man I ever knew." And even after he ran off with another woman and destitute Sara became a cook for eccentric old Mr. Wilcher, she was willing to steal for Gulley when he turned...
Three years after Herself Surprised appeared in England, Cary published a sequel, The Horse's Mouth. The story of Gulley and Sara in their old age, it is a wonderfully comic and roisterous novel, tougher and more brilliant than Herself Surprised. Taken together, the two novels form one of the most impressive pieces of English writing in the past decade...