Buy this book on-line HIGGINS**, JACK: : Memoirs of a Dance Hall RomeoLONDON.COLLINS,1989. ISBN 0002155346.
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author's contemporary b/w full-length photographic rear panel; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Head of spine/backstrip of dw/dj minimally bumped with reciprocal creasing.Top edges lightly discoloured - dust-soiling - with concomitant but barely discernible spotting/foxing,fore-edges brighter and generally cleaner; contents bright,tight, clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading
creases to any pages' corners - possibly unread - though the book does have a slight lean.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers - no offsetting from dw/djs' inner flaps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-176pp [paginated] includes 7 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,bon mots,and a dedication.
Returning,recently demobbed,to the Yorkshire town of Manningham in 1949,to the cobbled streets,the rattling trams,the rows of Victorian houses and the everfalling rain,young Oliver Shaw begins a year of amorous adventure.
Ignorance leaves him unprepared for the first one,but he quickly learns that women, too,have certain expectations and satisfying these can be more rewarding than snatching his own gratification.One after another,he collects dates from the throng at the local dance hall,taking his pleasures and supplying it wherever and whenever he is encouraged.Most of his partners,he finds,are at least as voracious as he.And some outdo him altogether.
Between-times Oliver grimly pursues a career as schoolmaster at the anarchic Khyber Street Secondary School,and struggles to fulfil his greatest ambition: to become a successful writer.In all areas of Oliver's life,this year will prove a turning point.
Temporarily forsaking his usual territory, Jack Higgins has written a story that,with its sympathetic,self-deprecating hero,is totally different and wholly satisfying.
Sensual,haunting,often touching,often funny,'Memoirs of a Dance Hall Romeo' offers the reader an unusual entertainment.
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