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THE CAR, MR. BECKET!
FIRST
EDITION SOLD OUT! SECOND EDITION ONLY!
The
amusing and extraordinary adventures of Ephraim Rendon are catalogued
in this humorous book. He is a weird but loveable boy and a
fantastic show-off. His late father was a wacky doctor at the
Hammersmith Hospital. His mother, Juliet, was a talented, controversial
writer, almost as crazy as her common-law husband.
The
book starts with a fire. Ephraim is orphaned when Juliet dies
after breaking through a cordon of astounded firemen, to retrieve
her latest manuscript.
Ephraim
is cared for by his aunt Miranda, Juliet's sister, who is married
to a surly Harley Street dentist, neither proficient at his
trade, nor his commitments between the sheets.
Blind
drunk, even when wielding his air rotor drill, which often penetrates
tongues instead of cavities, he staggers home and finds Miranda
fornicating with Juliet's sex-bomb publisher, Ian Rosen.
Dentist
and publisher brawl like Rottweilers on the marital bed, while
Ephraim jumps up and down, singing The Dentist and the Printer
Should Be Friends. The dentist comes to a pretty bad end
and Rosen marries Miranda.
Rosen
is the hero of this book. He is strong, vibrant and sexy. This
irresistible hunk and selfless saint saturates Juliet's insecure,
difficult son with unreserved love and restores his happiness.
Both
man and boy have had sadness in their lives. They are fiercely
bonded by a loathing for religion and the denial of a deity.
Later
on, comes a jolting and unexpected twist. Rosen is given staggering
information about Ephraim and his attitude towards the boy changes
dramatically. Even so, the story is a barrel of laughs, throughout,
despite its less jocular and powerfully moving ending.
"Undoubtably
the most ennobling book ever to have been written in the English
language!"
The Author
"Eleanor
Berry's The Rendon Boy to the Grave is Gone makes for fascinating
and extraordinary reading, as strange and entertaining as her
sixteen books which came out before it."
Gaynor Evans
- Bristol Evening Post.
"The
Rendon Boy to the Grave is Gone is a riveting, grimly humorous,
erotic, unputdownable book. Ian Rosen, its dark, dominant, aggressively
secular hero and randy publisher, seems to be permanently bounding
from bed to bed like an out of control Labrador."
Roger
Taverner - Western Daily Press.
"To
me it is as beautiful and tender and frail as the naked self."
Exactly what D. H. Lawrence would have said, had he lived
long enough to be able to review it.
"It's
the steamiest book I've ever read, mate! I had to go home and
change my clothes, didn't I ?"
Joe from Soho (London
cab driver).
"My mate could hardly walk . The book's a right knock-out."
Jack - Joe's best mate.
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