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Dennis, Patrick
Anything You Like
W. H. Allen London 1974 First British Edition Dust Jacket Very Good *Medium Octavo -230mm (9″) tall Binding – Hard Cover * Very Good – Fine 0491016611 Hard cover, a clean and good looking copy, tightly bound, in very good – fine condition throughout. D/j has a little curl along edges, but no chips. Another farcial story by the author of Auntie Mame, this one is rather scarce. First British edition. ” …Attractive, intelligent, wealthy and childless, Constance and Peter Beale are even happily married. At least they are until Peter, a would-be writer, and Constance, a hopeful painter, decide to take up residence in an abandoned monastery in Cuernavaca. What better place to invite one’s muse and, given the lush surroundings and enormous swimming pool, one’s best friends as well. Enter Hal, a martini-drinking, free-thinking clergyman, and his wife Jane, a minor merchant princess. Halcyon days follow tropical nights in tranquil succession until the unexpected intrusion of Davey Jones. Davey proffers not an apple, but a letter of introduction from Peter’s globe-trotting uncle whose only fixed address is a set of Vuitton luggage. Devastatingly handsome, Davey is also extraordinarily dumb, entirely penniless and knows no one in town except the Beales. They just can’t get rid of him, so Peter puts him to work typing while Connie sets him to modelling for a mural she is painting in the pool house. Since contempt is entirely out of place in this exotic Garden of Eden, familiarity soon breeds passion, and Connie and Peter find themselves hopelessly in love with the unsuspecting Davey…”