THE UPPER PLEASURE GARDEN

by Gordon M. Williams ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 9, 1970

She didn't know,"" smugly muses the painfully jejune hero of this relentlessly British newspaper tale, ""about angles, intros, nut-fronts, single-column down-the-pangers. . . "" etc. Lor, the life of a news bloke! Especially twenty-one-year-old Scottish Andrew Menzies (""Ming"") who toils nicely for the newspaper of a small seaside town. When he's not having a miserable time pressing ladies against gnarled oak trees in the Upper Pleasure Garden, he's snooping about on the gossip beat. But Ming goes a bit too far when he attempts to milk the political ambitions of a millionaire grocery king via scandal and effrontery. The grocery king puts him down proper and friends don't even invite him to parties. Ming goes whining about piteously until he beds Myrna, a fellow reporter, and it's love, luv. Tedious.

Pub Date: Sept. 9, 1970

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Morrow

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Sept. 1, 1970

Categories: FICTION