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The Unspeakable Skipton
Author: Pamela Hansford Johnson
Hard cover. Fair condition. First edition.
The Unspeakable Skipton by Pamela Hansford Johnson is a darkly comic and satirical novel centered on Daniel Skipton, an embittered and self-important English writer living in Bruges. Convinced of his literary genius despite his obscurity and paranoia, Skipton survives through petty scams, delusions of grandeur, and contempt for the tourists and acquaintances around him. As his grip on reality weakens, his increasingly erratic behavior exposes the absurdity of his inflated ego and the fragility of his self-imposed exile. Johnson’s sharp prose and psychological insight transform this tale of artistic obsession and self-deception into a biting character study and a brilliantly sardonic commentary on the pretensions of the literary world.
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