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Usage for picaresque




Like her salty, unpredictable and picaresque novels, Bainbridge was an original, a woman with a fondness for cigarettes, whisky and good conversation, who could turn a dull day into a picnic. It was known that at her death she was working on a novel, ...

Here's a picaresque romp through the underside. Jerrod Edson's The Goon has plenty of brawling, bawling and, of course, drinking. Lots of drinking. Lots and lots of it. Geez, you might pass out just from reading the book. The titular goon of Edson's ...

Certainly James Attlee in the course of his picaresque travels in pursuit of moonbeams stumbled on some phenomena that were, if not new, then novel, in the demotic sense of the word. Chief among these wonders surely is the Interstellar Light Collector, ...

His adventures in Part Two are a delightful and daring picaresque, filled with comic relief, sex and peril. Throughout the book, Davis-Gardner introduces chapters with dialogue from the libretto of Puccini's opera, but a clever meta-joke enters the ...


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