1. Vile Bodies by Evelyn Waugh
The older generation (and the tabloid readers) wistfully assume that these parties run rampant with sex and drink, but in fact they are much more innocent than they are perceived to be. ... 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. Nina's attitude towards sex is in fact quite child-like: after her first time with Adam she claims that it has given her a "terrible pain." ... Waugh's choice of words for the...
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- Approx Pages: 6
- Grade Level: Graduate