ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 1968
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

John Haase - Me and the Arch Kook Petulia
Bantam Books, New York, 1968
214 str.
meki povez
stanje: dobro, potpis na predlistu.

Introducing Peturlia! `I`ve got plans. I`ll make you hate and love and kick shins and spit fire. I`ll make you feel the wind and the rain. I`ll fill your days and nights so full of me - all twenty-two years of panting womanflesh - you`ll need two hands to cut off a wart in the morning, and you can write a musical around that, and play it in the corn palace in Kansas City and drop popcorn in your navel to boot! Julie Christie played Petulia in Warner Brothers movie, for which this paperback is a tie-in.

Me" is thirty-eight-year-old Archie Bollen, M.D., divorced, analyst attender, father of two and otherwise solid citizen. Petulia is..."was beautiful. All right. More beautiful than a number of other girls I know? No. Not more beautiful. Less beautiful. Yes. No. Intriguing. Yes. More intriguing than others? No. Yes. No. An idiot? Yes. Yes." She is, indeed, disconcerting, launching her attack at a party, demanding an affair after marriage-- after she divorces her present husband of eight months. She camps on Archie`s doorstep, entreats, beguiles, frustrates, enchants, seduces him and disappears leaving him with "maybe" fragments of herself--was she a will o` the wisp or a whore? But when she turns up again, a broken doll in the charity ward of his hospital, the pieces slowly start to cohere. She`s been a Darling with soul (astute producers...they`ve cast Julie Christie in the forthcoming movie production), and there has been such delicate method to her madness. No dilettante touch here although the author lends a light, trenchant wit to the dialogue. The characters have life and lilt; their story is diverting and oddly affective. Haase`s best.


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