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Condition: Fair Cover scuffed and discoloured and book creased as if once wet, but no stain marks. Short ink inscriptions on pre-title page. Pages browning but otherwise clean. Plot / Content: Miraculously surviving an explosion in the South China Sea, Merchant Seaman Keiron Dorrity comes to London to take things easy for a while. While convalescing, he writes an account of a bizarre incident he heard about at sea. When this is snapped up by the editor of a homophile magazine, Keiron finds himself drawn into the murky, lucrative underworld of the professional homosexual. He enters it for kicks, for giggles, for the attention which fans his ego; and in return it brings him money and an easy life. Then he falls in love with a young American called Rufus; and with subsequent events comes the realisation that the world he lightheartedly entered cannot be so easily discarded. (from the cover) Background / Biography: "Leo Madigan is a Merchant Seaman. He first went to sea at 16. By 21 he had tried being an actor, a Horse Guardsman, a husband, a monk, a psychiatric worker. He returned to sea and has been shipping out steadily for ten years. He was encouraged to write by winning a literary competition organised by the Seafarers' Education Service, and since then his stories, articles and poems have frequently appeared in the Service's magazine The Seafarer. He has also contributed articles to Blackwood's magazine. Jackarandy is his first novel." (from the endpaper) Reviews: "This book, with all its tumultuousness and vitality, seems to me to show that its author is a born writer." James Pope Hennessy (from the cover) 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 "Sat 27th I don't know; depression and a sort of emptiness . . . a train in a siding . . . a ship becalmed . . . Boy, what a homecoming! What a welcome! The Immigration geezer was in two minds about letting me in and the Customs fella charged two quid duty on a thirty-bob watch. And a month ago the papers wouldn't stop calling me a hero . . . People still remember in Singapore anyhow. Last night with those matelots at Changi waiting for the flight and that Air Force officer's wife throwing herself at me like I was a movie star or someone, really, leaving her husband and those braided pigs, walking across the lawn to our table and chatting me up, purring and running her hands through my hair. Vanity put the Chuck-it!-this-happens-to-me-every-day pose into gear but secretly of course I was preening myself and spreading my feathers in front of the lads." opening paragraphs Secondhand booksellers |
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