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Peter Smart's Confessions

Paul Bailey

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Peter Smart is a man with a highly developed sense of his own inadequacy - a gentle person whose self-induced confession of his past failures gradually but perceptibly evolves into a grotesque portrait gallery of the extraordinary people who have always surrounded him.

As he sits down to bare his soul, he finds, to his surprise, that it is these other personalities who fascinate and command the stage. In youth he has been flanked by a virago of a mother, aptly dubbed by her in-laws as ‘mouth and trousers’; by mother’s decrepit paramour, Dr Leonard Cottie, author of the astonishingly boring With Stethoscope and Scalpel; his ‘brownish’ grandmother, who, cosily reeking of beer and tobacco, chuckles over ‘penny dreadfulls’ like Ainslie Gritter’s The Fatal Cup of Cocoa.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 192 pages

Publication:: 1977

Publisher:: Jonathan Cape, Ltd

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0224013580

ISBN13:: 9780224013581

kindle Asin:: 0224013580

Peter Smart's Confessions

Paul Bailey

3.38/5 (24 ratings)

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Peter Smart is a man with a highly developed sense of his own inadequacy - a gentle person whose self-induced confession of his past failures gradually but perceptibly evolves into a grotesque portrait gallery of the extraordinary people who have always surrounded him.

As he sits down to bare his soul, he finds, to his surprise, that it is these other personalities who fascinate and command the stage. In youth he has been flanked by a virago of a mother, aptly dubbed by her in-laws as ‘mouth and trousers’; by mother’s decrepit paramour, Dr Leonard Cottie, author of the astonishingly boring With Stethoscope and Scalpel; his ‘brownish’ grandmother, who, cosily reeking of beer and tobacco, chuckles over ‘penny dreadfulls’ like Ainslie Gritter’s The Fatal Cup of Cocoa.

Format:: Hardcover

Pages:: 192 pages

Publication:: 1977

Publisher:: Jonathan Cape, Ltd

Edition:: First Edition

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0224013580

ISBN13:: 9780224013581

kindle Asin:: 0224013580

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