The Great Lover: A Novel
By Jill Dawson. 2009. 310p. Harper Perennial.
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Before World War I, poet Rupert Brooke woos a variety of women, including housemaid Nell Golightly, and loses his virginity to a male friend. Distressed by his many affairs, reeling from the death of his brother, and insecure about his poetry, Brooke sets off for Tahiti, where he becomes increasingly mentally unstable.
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978-0-06-192436-1