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Condition: Very Good Signed by author: cover discoloured and v slight damage at corners, but otherwise tight and apparently unread. Plot / Content: Thirteen stories by comic writer. Background / Biography: "Peter Robins has had three plays broadcast and in 1970 edited the best-selling verse anthology Doves for the Seventies (Corgi: UK). Until three years ago he was duty editor with the Today Programme: BBC4's [sic] breakfast show. He works in journalism near Fleet Street and lives in East London." (from the cover of Robins' 1977 collection Undo Your Raincoats And Laugh!) Robins published several more books and founded Third House Publishers (with novelist David Rees) and Trouser Press. He is currently rumoured to live in South London. Reviews: "If you're being laundered for public life, Establishment Coverups will supply you with myopic glasses to carry in your pocket as an alibi. If you're caught kissing Pat instead of Patricia, well you're not wearing your specs, are you? "This ploy is part of one of Peter Robins' short stories. Another is about Edward, a respectable citizen who's about to entertain his boss to dinner when George, Edward's gay twin brother, turns up out of nowhere. George is as welcome as the erection you get in the middle of the vicarage fete. Such pieces are skilfully carpentered, but there are also stories based on real-life experience which attempt more and are less successful. The pattern is for a bourgeois whose cherries and cream skin won't taste like a schoolboy's talcummed arse. Good enough, but the chap will keep nattering on about how he and his new friend must never again be parted. As the bloke's mental age hasn't reached double figures, what is meant to be appealing is a bit of a shudder. "Personally my favourite story is about young Cedric who was loved by Rufus, the king whose kinsmen were the lion, the oak and the sun in high splendour. Rufus pleads 'Let's celebrate two people made one' and then, when Rufus dies, Cedric knows that his life is over too and that he cannot ask for such joy twice. "This piece has a dignity which gives it a dimension one cannot find in the trick situation or the simple-minded pick-up or in the macabre anecdotes about lovely chrysanthemums (booming and ringing like gongs) flourishing on the broth of boiled schoolboys. So maybe the author chose his unappetising title to warn us that not all the stories are more than 'entertainment'." Oswell Blakeston in Gay News no. 256. Clicking on advertiser links on this site may allow these companies to gather and use information about your visit to this and other websites to provide you with advertisements about goods and services presumed to be of interest to you. |
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