V.: A Novel, Volume 2Having just been released from the Navy, Benny Profane is content to lead a slothful existence with his friends, where the only real ambition is to perfect the art of "schlemihlhood," or being a dupe, and where "responsibility" is a dirty word. Among his pals--called the Whole Sick Crew--is Slab, an artist who can't seem to paint anything other than cheese danishes. But Profane's life changes dramatically when he befriends Stencil, an active ambitious young man with an intriguing mission--to find out the identity of a woman named V [Victoria Wren], who knew Stencil's father during the war, but who suddenly and mysteriously disappeared. |
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... never cried , never that he could remember . It worried him . But she might be faking . “ Ciao , " she said . That phony , Greenwich Village way to avoid saying good - bye . He hung up . " There's a nice fight on , " Dewey Gland said ...
... never cried , never that he could remember . It worried him . But she might be faking . “ Ciao , " she said . That phony , Greenwich Village way to avoid saying good - bye . He hung up . " There's a nice fight on , " Dewey Gland said ...
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... never quite up to date . He went out of his way to cultivate the Tagliacozzi look : showing his eyebrows thin and semicircular ; wearing a bushy mustache , pointed beard , sometimes even a skullcap , his old schoolboy yarmulke . He'd ...
... never quite up to date . He went out of his way to cultivate the Tagliacozzi look : showing his eyebrows thin and semicircular ; wearing a bushy mustache , pointed beard , sometimes even a skullcap , his old schoolboy yarmulke . He'd ...
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... never to touch drugs again , never to attend another Black Mass . Two of the male dancers , whom Itague had never left off calling Mongolized fairies , produced a long pole , pointed wickedly at one end . The music , near triple - forte ...
... never to touch drugs again , never to attend another Black Mass . Two of the male dancers , whom Itague had never left off calling Mongolized fairies , produced a long pole , pointed wickedly at one end . The music , near triple - forte ...
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