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At three in the morning, in a gay club somewhere in London's Bermondsey, Adam Killigrew comes face to face with Nemesis - wreathed in an unknown boy's devastating grin. Maybe it's just a question of smiling back? But life offers more complications for Adam, and for his lodger Theo, the black actor busy reinventing himself as an expensive luxury for mysterious Guy from Bayswater. Others are caught in the web: blue-blooded Daisy, muse and fixer, who needs to stay in control; Serena, her sister, and country wife to the perfect Jeremy; Frankie, the dancing divo with whom Adam falls in love; and sibylline Alice, the third sister, who knows all their secrets and one or two more.
This is a comedy of jaded city lives, of sex and secrets, of the urge to end the game. To dodge the Millennium and flee to the country. But can this smiling crew make their escape? With his unerring satirist's eye, softened by a wry indulgence towards human weakness. Jonathan Keates mixes the irony and compassion in a stylish, poignant and entertaining novel of post-Cool Britannia.
This is a comedy of jaded city lives, of sex and secrets, of the urge to end the game. To dodge the Millennium and flee to the country. But can this smiling crew make their escape? With his unerring satirist's eye, softened by a wry indulgence towards human weakness. Jonathan Keates mixes the irony and compassion in a stylish, poignant and entertaining novel of post-Cool Britannia.
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"Keates is an immensely elegant writer...with its wit, graceful contrictuon, snappy dialogue, Smile Please is a novel that Woody Allen might have written had he been a gay Londoner" (Independent)
"Always entertaining...sympathetic and absorbing" (Observer)
"Elegant, humane and highly intelligent" (Times Literary Supplement)
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"Always entertaining...sympathetic and absorbing" (Observer)
"Elegant, humane and highly intelligent" (Times Literary Supplement)
Jonathan Keates is a prizewinning biographer and novelist, well known as a reviewer and as a writer on Italian culture and history. He teaches at the City of London School and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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- EditoreVintage
- Data di pubblicazione2001
- ISBN 10 0099285169
- ISBN 13 9780099285168
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine336
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