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The Horse's Mouth
The Horse's Mouth
Author: Joyce Cary
The Horse's Mouth is a portrait of an artistic temperament. Its principal character, Gulley Jimson, is an impoverished painter who bothers little about the customary obligations and decencies. But although he is a bad citizen he is a good artist, so wholly preoccupied with his art that he is willing to endure any privation for its sake. Gulley J...  more »
ISBN: 231556
Publication Date: 8/1944
Pages: 375
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Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Readnmachine avatar reviewed The Horse's Mouth on + 1440 more book reviews
Couldn't get into this tale of an aging artist / con man as he tries to accumulate the wherewithal to complete his latest work.
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Written 1944, this edition 1965.


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