1. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The telephone call between Adam and Nina in Chapter 11, when Nina tells him that she is about to marry Ginger, is perhaps the most touching moment in the novel; Adam's quiet shock at the news and his powerful feeling of ostracization ("I don't want ever to see you again") reveals his and his generation's need for affection and companionship. ... In truth, there is remarkably little sex in Vile Bodies: despite being lovers, Adam and Nina sleep together for the first time in chapter five and we discover that this "was the first time that this had happened" to Nina. ... The Brigh...
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- Grade Level: Graduate