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...Overmastering Lust. Yet Julian's real mistress is the great river. As soon as he can shove politics aside, he presses on to the Concession territory itself; this voyage of discovery, upriver for more than a thousand miles by steamship and motor launch, is the central theme of the book. Cora Almeida is put aboard by her husband to seduce Julian away from his loyalty to the Concession. The temptation is painful; in bracing contrast to most fiction today, it is overmastered by youthful lust for adventure and exploration...
...point in countless small ways throughout Don't Stop the Carnival, as he has in other novels. He makes it with clumsy finality at Carnival's end, when Paperman has apparently mastered all the disasters of Amerigo. At that moment, the senseless accidental death of his actress mistress jerks him out of his dream of a tropical paradise. He realizes that what he really wants is to go back where he belongs, back to the wintry but real world of New York. Tearfully, he does...
...dance. Portuguese Author Monteiro has constructed his odd novella of life in modern Lisbon like one of those antique music boxes. The effect is quietly damning. The figures are a rich man, Gonçalo, his empty-headed wife, their idealistic young son, Gonçalo's stupid mistress Alexandra, and António, an old schoolmate fallen on hard times. As the key is wound and the book begins to tick, Gonçalo meets António. Then he sees his wife, then Alexandra. The programmed gears carry Alexandra to António and back...
...journalist who wants to expose the misappropriation of U.S. funds in a tiny principality ruled by the Duke of Ocgagna (Stewart Granger). But first, Ryan must overcome such obstacles as 1) the whereabouts of photostats containing evidence to clinch his case and 2) a soft spot for his former mistress (Nadia Gray), now Granger's duchess...
...certain impalpable sense of enlightenment from Indian Author Raja Rao's charming, puzzling tale. The simple surface of the book is the story of a clerk in an Indian village near the sea who wants only to build himself a house and live with his gentle mistress-and of his neighbor, Govindan Nair, who helps him. Beneath that surface runs Govindan Nair's unscrupulous ingenuity and his innocent-seeming philosophy: "Learn the way of the kitten. Then you're saved. Allow the mother cat, sir, to carry you." And still beneath that is the Everlasting...