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Consenting Adults: Or, the Duchess Will Be Furious
Consenting Adults Or the Duchess Will Be Furious Author:Peter De Vries "He remains one of the most stylish of living novelists and much, much the funniest." — So says the London Times Literary Supplement about an author to whose body of work this makes a welcome addition. It principally relates Ted Peachum's involvement with three women: a New Woman police officer, Kathy Arpeggio, ... more »whom he tries to ravish in her own prowl car; Snooky von Sickle, a sumptuous brewery heiress whom he shares in a menage a trois with his best friend, Ambrose d'Amboise; and Ambrose's young sister, Columbine, the virginal Girl Across the Street, ever sounding the call to Innocence amid Peachum's steamy adventures. A steadily graduating erotomania reaches its climax in a riotous love affair with a set of triplets, the Peppermint Sisters, whom Peachum possesses en bloc in a hotel room on alternate Saturdays.
Is this the flawed masterpiece De Vries has been telling his publisher he's been at work on for seventeen years? We can't see anything wrong with it.« less