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Utterly Immoral - Robert Keable and his scandalous novel (Paperback)
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Utterly Immoral - Robert Keable and his scandalous novel (Paperback)
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Loot Price R362
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When Robert Keable's First World War novel Simon Called Peter was
published, critics called it 'offensive', 'a libel' and reeking of
'drink and lust'. Scott Fitzgerald suggested it was 'utterly
immoral' and referenced it in The Great Gatsby. The novel became a
huge international best-seller, a Broadway play and the sequel made
into a Hollywood movie. And it made its author an international
celebrity. What critics did not know was that the novel, about a
military chaplain and a young woman having an affair during the
war, was autobiographical. Utterly Immoral tells the remarkable
true story of Robert Keable. He was an up-and-coming star of his
Church. Raised in Croydon by evangelical parents he became
increasingly high church while studying at Cambridge and, once
ordained, he travelled to Zanzibar as a missionary. Following the
outbreak of the First World War, he moved to Basutoland to work as
a parish priest. He travelled to France as chaplain to the black
labourers of the SANLC. It was during the war that he began to lose
his faith, dispirited by the appallingly treatment of his men, the
horrors of the war and the implications of his secret affair with
the nineteen-year-old lorry driver, Jolie Buck. Having written
Simon Called Peter he left the church, and his wife, and fled to
Tahiti to live in Paul Gauguin's house. He lived the celebrity life
in Tahiti, marrying a Tahitian princess, dubbed the 'Helen of Troy
of Tahiti'. The author, Robert Keable's grandson, has used letters,
books, articles, interviews and a trip to Tahiti to produce a
fascinating account of Robert Keable's life and the story of the
success of Simon Called Peter.
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