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 Amazing Disgrace - James Hamilton-Paterson
 Amazing Disgrace - James Hamilton-Paterson ... from rock singers and racing drivers to ski champions. And to Millie Cleat, the monstrous one-armed sailor, whose around the world voyage has made her the toast of Britain. Gerald pines for greater things, however, and would prefer to write the memoirs of Max Christ, the celebrated conductor. While he schemes to land this unattainable catch, he muses hilariously and viciously from his Tuscan hilltop on the world of which he is such an unwilling part. Meanwhile, some oceanographers are planning revenge on Millie Cleat for her destruction of their greatest coup. Mayhem follows.Newest Review: ... neighbour Marta is still missing, his recurring thoughts of what might have happened to this uncivilised, soul-destroying ... more ... witch from Eastern Europe with her Mafia connected family provides some slight underlying tension, will she ever come back, if so in which condition, if not, why not and what will happen to her house? Another minor narrative strand is Gerald's research project on Mr and Mrs ProWang's Pow-r-TabsTM bought off the Internet to find out what is behind the promise of penile enlargement, the term priapism is now part of my vocabulary. The third strand is Gerald's endeavour to get into contact with a famous director (Gerald adore...more |
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Amazing Disgrace - James Hamilton-Paterson: Saucy Sailorette (848 words)
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SHARP SHARK MARITIME MOLL GAY GOURMET WACKY WATERWOMAN NAUTICAL NONSENSE --- Whatever; Gerald Samper is back, the selfsame that jumped onto the literary stage in 2004 when James Hamilton-Paterson published the novel Cooking With Fernet Branca (see my review Lethal Liqueur) and took the reading public by storm, not only the English one, meanwhile the book has been translated into 21 languages. Amazing Disgrace is the sequel, as you may have experienced yourself it's better to be wary of sequels of highly successful books, it has happened more than once that the second book doesn't hold a candle ... Read the complete review
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