Rancid Pansies

James Hamilton-Paterson

Faber & Faber, 2008 - Fiction - 256 pages

Book Three in the Gerald Samper series finds Samper recuperating in Sussex, when he learns that film rights to his book on Millie Cleatathe have been sold. This windfall is sufficient to finance a return to Italy--and his dream to write the libretto for an opera.

Contents

• Section 1: 25
• Section 2: 54
• Section 3: 84

About the author

James Hamilton-Paterson is the author of the bestselling Empire of the Clouds, which was hailed as a classic account of the golden age of British aviation. He won a Whitbread Prize for his first novel, Gerontius, and among his many other celebrated books are Seven-Tenths, one of the finest books written in recent times about the oceans, the satirical trilogy that began with Cooking with Fernet Branca, and the autobiographical Playing With Water. Born and educated in England, he has lived in the Philippines and Italy and now makes his home in Austria.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Rancid Pansies
• Author: James Hamilton-Paterson
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2008
• ISBN: 0571238459, 9780571238453
• Length: 256 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Humorous / General; Fiction / Literary