I was utterly horrified in the kitchen this morning to see what I took to be a grotesquely huge fat fleshy spider emerging from the larder. It turned out to be a most engaging toad. -The sea, The sea『The sea, The sea』is held together by the personality and preoccupations of its author, more than a consistent application of novelistic godd form. It is hilarious. It is also spiritual and sexual, philosophical and frightening. The beautiful thing about it is how it holds more than one meaning within itself, releasing someting subtly different to whoever picks it up.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN BURNSIDE
When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from his tumultuous love affairs but unexpectedly bumps into his childhood sweetheart and sets his heart on destroying her marriage. His equilibrium is further disturbed when his friends all decide to come and keep him company and Charles finds his seaside idyll severely threatened by his obsessions.
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