The Folding StarPantheon Books, 1994 - 422 ページ Edward Manners - thirty-three, disaffected, in search of a new life - has come to an ancient Flemish city to teach English. Almost at once he falls in love with one of his pupils, the seventeen-year-old Luc Altidore, recently expelled from school for some mysterious offense. Condemned to a mounting but incommunicable obsession with the boy, Edward becomes involved in affairs with two other men: one a heartless but seductive fraud, the other a young drifter with a deeply possessive streak. Then Edward is introduced to the world of the enigmatic and reclusive Symbolist painter Edgard Orst. Gradually he is drawn toward an understanding of the artist's own obsession with a famous actress, drowned off Ostend at the turn of the century, and of the ambiguous circumstances of Orst's own death under Nazi occupation. |
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... wasn't an expert , he was a perfectly nice dentist , but the odd provenance made me wonder , and the idea of treasures in Eastern Europe suddenly rising to the surface and becoming available was attractive too . ' It was clear how the ...
... wasn't an expert , he was a perfectly nice dentist , but the odd provenance made me wonder , and the idea of treasures in Eastern Europe suddenly rising to the surface and becoming available was attractive too . ' It was clear how the ...
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... wasn't imaginative ; he wasn't shocked by the whims and oddities of others - the odder the better , as I was coming to realise - but he needed an objective . It was hard to explain that I just wanted to be here , just wanted to see the ...
... wasn't imaginative ; he wasn't shocked by the whims and oddities of others - the odder the better , as I was coming to realise - but he needed an objective . It was hard to explain that I just wanted to be here , just wanted to see the ...
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... wasn't a game . ' ' Actually , it was he who asked to see me again . I didn't realise at the time , because to me he was marvellous , but he must have thought himself pretty lucky to get a fresh and well , quite nice- looking seventeen ...
... wasn't a game . ' ' Actually , it was he who asked to see me again . I didn't realise at the time , because to me he was marvellous , but he must have thought himself pretty lucky to get a fresh and well , quite nice- looking seventeen ...
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