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Introducing
CROSS-PURPOSES
Or
THE ADULTERY CLUB
Or
ROLLING AT THE BALL
An ebook novel by John O’Loughlin
Which can be previewed via the link
below the following Centretruths editorial:-
This novel moves
beyond the largely autobiographical concerns of John O’Loughlin’s earlier
experiments in the genre – Changing Worlds and Fixed Limits -
towards a more imaginatively fictional integrity which led him by the nose, so
to speak, into contexts and situations largely outside the domain of his
personal experience. To be sure, the
subjectivity of his earlier work is still, in some degree, present (witness the
opening chapter ... with its highly philosophical considerations and private
reflections), but it is now subordinated to the unfolding narrative ... as we
follow the fortunes of James Kelly, a self-styled philosopher, through
successive love-affairs which clash with his loyalties to friends and
benefactors alike, culminating in deception and tragedy for all concerned. One would think that CROSS-PURPOSES was a
philosophical-novel-turned-romance, and so, up to a point, it may well be. But it is also a tribute, in no small
measure, to the genius of both Lawrence Durrell and Henry Miller; though one
might be forgiven for detecting an implicit condemnation of the latter in the
'Paris chapter', as Mr O’Loughlin likes to think of Chapter 7, where Kelly's
attitude to sexual promiscuity is concerned!
However, that is still his favourite chapter in what is probably his
best novel. - A centretruths editorial.
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