Fiction of Gay Interest

The Rough and the Smooth
Robin Maugham
Publisher: W H Allen
London, UK

Year


 		1974       first publ: 1951
Cover / size: Hardback / h 20.4 cm * w 13.4 cm / 190 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: 0491018207

Arbery Ref:   000868

Condition Very Good

Jacket: edges nicked and worn, particularly at top of spine; discoloured and faded. Boards (dark blue with gilt lettering): faded along some edges and spine; one corner dented. Book leans forward slightly. Page edges: top edge stained; slight markings on leading and bottom edges. Endpapers: slightly browned, slight soiling, erased pencil inscriptions. A few pages have small dirt marks; most pages are clean.

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Plot / Content:                              Rating: N

"The ambitious young lawyer with a society background, the girl he daren't introduce to his friends, the aging businessman dabbling in shady deals . . . these three strangers from separate worlds become deviously involved in a highly charged emotional relationship, living out their story in a twilight of half-lies, half-truths."

(from the jacket)



Background / Biography:

Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham of Hartfield (17 May 1916 - 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British novelist, playwright and travel writer.

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Reviews:

"Maugham handles his theme with enormous discretion and at the same time delivers a gripping thriller. Storytelling at its best." Sunday Express

"Only a handful of living novelists can play the reader like a hooked fish with comparable ingenuity and suppleness." Sunday Telegraph

"Grippingly told." Sunday Times

(from the cover of later paperback edition)




"Mike Thompson usually travelled by Underground to and from Lincoln's Inn. One evening in the first week of January he had been kept late at work. Rain was falling heaveily when he left his chamberes, and because he was late for a dinner-party at his home he began to search hurriedly for a taxi. The cold, gleaming streets were empty, so he decided to telephone to a garage which kept hired cars. Since he could not find a telephone-box, he walked into a pub which he noticed was called The Stage. There was a taxi waiting outside, but it was engaged. Mike was glad to get into a hot bright atmosphere.

'A pint of bitter. And can I telephone, please?'

The barman with an effort turned away from the young girl sitting at the bar.

'We've got a 'phone, but it's out of order. Pint of bitter?'

'You don't know where I can get a taxi?'

'There aren't many round here this time of night.'

The young girl on the bar-stool turned round clowly and looked at him. She saw a young man, slim and quiet good-looking, with a lean face, a fresh complexion and curly brown hair.

'Which way are you going?' she asked."

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