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Introducing
CROSS-PURPOSES
Or
THE
ADULTERY CLUB
Or
ROLLING AT THE
BALL
Long Prose by John O’Loughlin
Which can be previewed via the
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below the following Centretruths
editorial:–
This novel
moves beyond the largely autobiographical concerns of John O’Loughlin’s
earlier experiments in the genre – Changing Worlds and Fixed Limits – towards a more imaginatively fictional integrity which led him by the
nose,
so to speak, into contexts and situations largely outside the domain of
his
personal experience. To be sure, the
subjectivity of his earlier work is still, in some degree, present
(witness the
opening chapter ... with its highly philosophical considerations and
private
reflections), but it is now subordinated to the unfolding narrative ...
as we
follow the fortunes of James Kelly, a self-styled philosopher, through
successive love-affairs which clash with his loyalties to friends and
benefactors alike, culminating in deception and tragedy for all
concerned. One would think that
CROSS-PURPOSES was a
philosophical-novel-turned-romance, and so, up to a point, it may well
be. But it is also a tribute, in no small
measure, to the genius of both Lawrence Durrell
and
Henry Miller; though one might be forgiven for detecting an implicit
condemnation of the latter in the 'Paris chapter', as Mr O’Loughlin
likes to think of Chapter 7, where Kelly's attitude to sexual
promiscuity is
concerned! However, that is still his
favourite chapter in what is probably his best novel. – A Centretruths
Editorial
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