{"product_id":"businessmen-as-lovers-rosemary-tonks","title":"Businessmen as Lovers (Rosemary Tonks)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFun, witty and sun-soaked - literary cartwheels and seaside capers from the astoundingly brilliant mid-century writer who destroyed her own books. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreat friends, Mimi and Caroline, are off on holiday to a beautiful Italian island. There they find themselves part of an eccentric cast of characters including their debonair host and his mistress, a relentless venture capitalist and a villain in the form of the local dentist. There is also Beetle, with whom Mimi is completely and simply in love. As everyone relaxes into island living and the demands of real life drift away, the holiday hijinks culminate in a very Mediterranean prank - the cutting down of the dentist's prize lemon tree.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBack in print after many decades, this is a glorious novel by an extraordinary and little-known writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Everyone could do with a bit of Tonks in their lives' Stewart Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Tonks throws out aphorisms, and scorn, like loose change' \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eRosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a colourful figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eNotes on Cafés and Bedrooms\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIliad of Broken Sentences\u003c\/i\u003e, and six novels, from \u003ci\u003eOpium Fogs\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Halt During the Chase\u003c\/i\u003e. Tonks wrote for the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eListener\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEncounter\u003c\/i\u003e, and presented poetry programmes for the BBC.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), B-format paperback, Englisch, 160 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65838974533981,"sku":"K097517801","price":10.8,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/9751780100001A.jpg?v=1788763362","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/businessmen-as-lovers-rosemary-tonks","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}