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Condition: hardback: Fair / paperback: Good Hardback: Boards (black with gold lettering and design): marked on front, severely marked on rear (see pictures), spine marked and lettering severely faded. Page edges dusty. Endpapers mottled. Pages clean. 
click on pics for larger image Paperback: Cover: worn at edges, some creasing. Ink inscriptions on pre-title page. Pages browning as normal. Binding tight Plot / Content: "Georges de Sarre, diplomat and sensualist, was one of the few men in wartime France to keep his cool. Forced to resign from his post on a trumped-up morals charge, he resolved to pass the time in amused appraisal of the scene around him. The resulting observations of depraved German soldiery, anxious collaborationists, undercover Resistance operators and unhappy neutralists make immensely funny and scandalous reading. The more so as the events and people described are all too easily identifiable . . . ! " (from the cover of the paperback edition) Background / Biography: "Roger Peyrefitte, who scandalised governments and enraged officialdom all over Europe with Special Friendships, The Jews and Diplomatic Diversions, explodes another satirical bombshell right under the seats of the mighty and pompous in this brilliantly scurrilous sequel." (from the cover of the paperback edition) Peyrefitte (1907 - 2000) came to fame with his first novel - Les Amitiés Particulières (Special Friendships) (1947) describing the love affair between two teenage boys. A flamboyant figure, several of his dozens of books were about teenage boys and their older male sexual partners and lovers. Wikipedia entry Use the search box in the left column to find other books by Peyrefitte from Arbery Books Reviews: "A really witty book." Daily Telegraph (from the cover of the paperback edition) 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. |
Quote from this book "Mlle Crapote stood at her office window in the Quai d'Orsay and watched Ribbentrop coming out of the Invalides railway station. It occurred to Georges de Sarre, who stood beside her, that the German Foreign Minister's education in French manners was beginning too soon. His welcome was lacking in good order: he was button-holed by reporters and hustled by photographers, while the porters carrying his luggage shoved in front of him. Mlle Crapote said, 'He ought to be shot.'" opening paragraph Secondhand booksellers |
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