In Agents and Patients, we go back to London with the newly prosperous, memorably named Blore-Smith: an blameless, first rate adequate chap . . . and a drip. at risk of the machinations of these with much less funds and extra lust, Blore-Smith falls sufferer to 2 con artists whose ploys hold him via to the artwork galleries and whorehouses of Paris, Berlin, and beyond.
Written from a vantage element either excessive and unavoidably slim, Powell’s early novels however deal within the common subject matters that will develop into a considerable a part of his oeuvre: delight, greed, and what makes humans behave as they do. full of eccentric characters and piercing insights, Powell’s paintings is achingly hilarious, human, and true.
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