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The Bloater

The Bloater

by Rosemary Tonks
Paperback
Publication Date: 20/09/2022

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A sparklingly ironic comedy of manners set in 60s London. A rediscovered classic by 'the Poet Who Disappeared'

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY STEWART LEE

Min works at the BBC as an audio engineer, where she is struggling to replicate the sound of a heartbeat. At home, other matters of the heart are making a mockery of life as Min knows it.

Min has found herself the object of her lodger's affection. An internationally renowned opera singer she's nicknamed 'The Bloater', Min is disgusted and attracted to him in equal measure. But with a husband so invisible that she accidentally turns the lights off on him even when he's still in the room, Min can't quite bring herself to silence The Bloater's overtures.

Vain, materialistic, yet surprisingly tender, The Bloater is a sparklingly ironic comedy of manners for all flirtatious gossips who love to hate and hate to love.

ISBN:
9781784877804
9781784877804
Category:
Adult & contemporary romance
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
20-09-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Random House
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
160
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x11mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Rosemary Tonks

Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a colourful figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafes and Bedrooms (Putnam, 1963) and Iliad of Broken Sentences (The Bodley Head, 1967), and six novels, from Opium Fogs (1963) to The Halt During the Chase (1972), wrote for The Observer, The Times, The New York Review of Books, The Listener, The New Statesman and Encounter, and presented poetry programmes for the BBC.

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