The Swell Season

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THE SWELL SEASON ?J'JOSEF SKVORECKY
"What are you punishing me for, God? Why did You make girls in the first place, if a good Christian can 'tlay a hand on them?"
'Danny, the hero of this collection of interlinked stories, is a young man with only two things on his mind: women and jazz. He chats up the girls and thinks himself irresistible, but just when he imagines they are finally going to succumb to his charms he finds they have once again led him up the garden path. If girls let you down though, jazz never does. The only trouble is that if it comes to straight choice between them, it's the mouth-watering, tantalising, fickle girls who win every dme Skvorecky's hero is none other than a Czech Luckyjim'
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'Wartime occupation is presented through the eyes of Czech students bravely pursuing their love affairs as though Lehar were sdll top of the pops, though Wagnerian shadows are beginning to fall on the street corners. To be funny and at the... Tovább

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PICADOR
THE SWELL SEASON ?J'JOSEF SKVORECKY
"What are you punishing me for, God? Why did You make girls in the first place, if a good Christian can 'tlay a hand on them?"
'Danny, the hero of this collection of interlinked stories, is a young man with only two things on his mind: women and jazz. He chats up the girls and thinks himself irresistible, but just when he imagines they are finally going to succumb to his charms he finds they have once again led him up the garden path. If girls let you down though, jazz never does. The only trouble is that if it comes to straight choice between them, it's the mouth-watering, tantalising, fickle girls who win every dme Skvorecky's hero is none other than a Czech Luckyjim'
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
'Wartime occupation is presented through the eyes of Czech students bravely pursuing their love affairs as though Lehar were sdll top of the pops, though Wagnerian shadows are beginning to fall on the street corners. To be funny and at the same dme convey this air of menace comes more easily to a Czech than an English writer, but Paul Wilson has handled his double translation, through the tangled idioms of dme and tongue, with what looks Hke admirable skill' GUARDIAN
'Rings refreshingly true to life and innocence. Josef Skvorecky knows all there is to know about youth and its naivete and represents the problems of growing up with warm, infectious humour' IRISH TIMES
'It's really delightfully funny and human' TRIBUNE Vissza