![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() There, a deeply agitated man named Herbert Stencil obsesses over the death of his father Sidney Stencil, a secret agent who died in Malta while working for British intelligence agencies, and the true identity of a woman known only as V. Later, Rachel attends a party with the Whole Sick Crew. ![]() Rachel Owlglass accuses cosmetic surgeon Shale Schoenmaker of driving her roommate Esther Havitz into debt. The group spends a week or so drinking heavily and, after New Year’s Eve, Profane and Paola travel to New York on a bus before parting ways. After a riot breaks out, the military police raid the bar, but Profane escapes with his new acquaintances. In a bar in Norfolk, Virginia, Profane meets a group named the Whole Sick Crew: the short, violent, and toothless Ploy musician Dewey Gland Pig Bodine and a teenage bar worker from Malta named Paola Hod. In the mid-1950s, Benny Profane, recently discharged from the Navy, is traveling along the east coast without any real direction in life. This guide is written using the 2005 Perennial Modern Classics edition, based on the revised Cape/British edition of the text.Ĭontent Warning: The source material features depictions of sexual abuse and exploitation, graphic violence, substance use, and suicide. ![]()
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