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Introducing
THWARTED
AMBITIONS
Long Prose by John O’Loughlin
Which can be previewed via the
link
below the following brief Centretruths
editorial:–
This, the
first of three loosely-related novels written by John O’Loughlin
in 1980 and dealing with art and artists, is the tragic and, in some
sense,
pathetic account of a young artist by name of Robert Harding who is so
obsessed
with advancing his career ... that he becomes blind to the sexual
machinations
of a certain Henry Grace, a wealthy and influential art critic, to
seduce him
whilst ostensibly posing as his admiring patron. For
Grace
seems to be just the answer to
Harding's professional ambitions, and the artist allows himself to be
led from
commission to commission by the older man without the slightest
suspicion of
the latter’s true motives for befriending him. But
it
is Carol, Harding's girlfriend, whose
suspicions are first aroused and, together with both the writer Andrew
Doyle,
who is Harding's next-door neighbour, and a long-standing acquaintance
of hers
by name of Donald Prescott, she plots to thwart Grace's sexual
ambitions - with
tragic consequences for the critic, as things turn out in this far from
implausible narrative! – A
Centretruths Editorial
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