Reissue to follow up publication of Paul Bailey's new novel Kitty
and Virgil. Both 'Peter Smart's Confessions' and 'Gabriel's Lament'
were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The eponymous hero of Peter
Smart's Confessions, an unhappy husband and none-too-successful
actor, is writing after a suicide attempt. Peter's mother, as an
actor friend enthusiastically points out, is a comic monster: 'If
you put her in a book - as they say - no one would believe her...
Only Wagner could do her justice.' She's matched by the
larger-than-life eccentric, F. Leonard Cottle, randy retired doctor
and author of 'With Stethoscope and Scalpel', who employs Peter's
mother as housekeeper after her husband dies. Cottle introduces the
boy Peter to the facts of life. There are some bravura-satirical
set pieces on playwrights, players and critics: the staging and
reception of a 'revolutionary' production of Hamlet based on the
premise that he was suffering from congenital syphilis, a pointed
parody of Eliot's The Cocktail Party.
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