The Glorious Pool
by Thorne Smith
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Sun Dial Press reprint edition. Gray cloth with black print, no dust jacket. Some soiling to boards. Book plate inside. Perhaps the best example of Thorne Smith's acutely sharp social humor played out against a backdrop of the Volstead Act (Prohibition). Two unrepentant reprobates are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the seduction which made the stylish Rex Pebble into an adulterer and his companion, Spray Summers, into his hard-boiled mistress. While their exasperating and alcoholic Japanese houseboy, Nakashima, plays jujitsu with the English language, the two slip into a swimming pool, the waters of which have been changed into a fountain of youth. Abandoning their clothes and modesty with their advanced years, the newfound youthfulness of their bodies puts into motion an evening of hijinks that only a seasoned and well-practiced couple of sinners could imagine.
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 04102402GloriousPoolar
- Title
- The Glorious Pool
- Author
- Thorne Smith
- Illustrator
- Herbert Roese
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Sun Dial Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Size
- 8vo
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Mythology
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction / Fantasy; Humor;
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