Droll humor and hints of some racy sex abound in this satire set on the French Riviera. Several of the conversations in untranslated French -- which bugs the hell out of me. The snob gets his own, but in a rather splotchy fashion not to my taste. ( )

More meaningful than I expected it to be:

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Edgar Naylor is holidaying alone in the south of France, and hops off the bus in the town of Trou-sur-Mer. It had been an artist's colony in the 1920s, a magnet for expatriate Americans, and Naylor conceives the idea of writing about it, thinking of it as an archeological excavation, Cnossus-sur-Mer. He has literary ambitions, but weak ones. He didn't finish his previous book; his current work, a biography of the banker-bard Samuel Rogers has been chosen for its ease: Continued ( )

The novel which Connolly could not find a publisher for in England was accepted by Obelisk Press in Paris, when Connolly met Jack Kahane in London and told him that he had written a 'forbidden' book. (See 'The Good Ship Venus' by John de St. Jorre, p.28). The book was later published in England. Call No. PC 1.3 ( )