None But the Lonely HeartThe author looks at life through the eyes of Ernie Mott, an inarticulate London Cockney whose horizon is bounded by mean streets: whose only recreation is the tawdry Fun Fair; whose ambition is to be " in the money" : for whom women are a source of tantalizing and unsatisfied desire. |
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