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Memoirs of a Dance Hall Romeo

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Jan 1990
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The abrasively sentimental (and apparently autobiographical) narrative concerns Oliver Shaw, an eager young soldier just out of the British army in 1949 and ready for action of a different kind. " . . . and so," begins the novel, "I decided to devote myself exclusively to the pursuit of women." In this case, it's a fairly trivial pursuit--although Shaw vividly recalls his first time (in fact, his first seven times), the women are an undistinguished, coldly depicted lot--mostly coarse, hard-bitten and insensitive, their unifying characteristic and saving grace seems to be willingness. Between liaisons, Higgins works in a subplot about Shaw's experiences as a schoolteacher and resuscitates a score of postwar cliches. Shaw is also an aspiring novelist, but this self-portrait of the artist as a young stud suggests a fairly mediocre future for him.

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First Edition Jan 1990 Pocket ISBN 0671686771
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Jul 1990 Pocket ISBN 0671678442
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Aug 1990 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN 0006177468
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Aug 1989 Simon & Schuster ISBN 0671678434
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Jul 2013 Open Road Publishing ISBN B00DBLRDFK
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Jul 2013 Open Road Publishing ISBN 148043258X
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Aug 1989 Dove Entertainment Inc ISBN 1558001492
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Nov 2013 Audible Studios ISBN B00FARJW70
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