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Gorgeous George Galloway Gorgeous Gussie The Gorgon

Just finished this novel from 1974. Had Never heard of the author till I read this a few weeks ago: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/sep/27/holiday-stanley-middleton-review-nicholas-lezard-paperback Could be that Stanley Middleton is the best novelist I'd never heard of.

The Kleeneze Man The Avon Lady The Winslow Boy

Eager Beaver Igor Shorty

Ah, yes. 26 I make it. With Jim R's help (not to mention Google) I now have 10 solved.

Hare Krishna Guru-Murthy

Following your additional information and with the help of Google, I've managed to get my score up to 9, but that still leaves 37 to be solved!

This one is much harder!

Sheila Fell Dick Diver Mitchell Zuckoff

Thanks. Great fun. Got about half of them.

First saw Ted Nash sitting alongside Dick Oatts in the Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1989. A great concert! - which I can't say for my most recent sighting of Mr Nash - in the Wynton Marsalis Orchestra where he now spends a lot of his time. Have been listening on Spotify to a nice Ted Nash album called European Quartet which features him exclusively on tenor IIRC:

Yes, and they established something of a North of England circuit. In Leeds I saw Lee Konitz, Johnny Griffin (again), Cecil Payne, Jimmy Witherspoon, Freddie Hubbard, Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath and the Polish Modern Jazz Quartet.

The Seekers Vittorio De Sica Sycophants

Cecil Rhodes Med Flory Phil the Greek

Thanks to his efforts I got to see the following close up at his club: Hank Mobley, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin, Max Roach, Leo Wright, Carmell Jones and Tubby Hayes. Somehow I missed the Rollins show and the Archie Shepp group.

Lester The Vice President Lady Q

Lady Chatterley's Lover Lady Chatterley's Mother Lady Chatterley's Brother

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/he-brilliant-man-tributes-eric-7939606

Swampy Johnny D Boggs Marc Myers

Evelyn Waugh Martin Guerre Georges Bataille

Got my ticket very early for the Dmitry Baevsky Quintet featuring Joe Magnarelli at Southport in February. The rhythm section that they use in Europe is Alain Jean-Marie on piano, Giorgios Antoniou on bass and my favorite British drummer, Steve Brown. Can't wait!

F O Matthiessen Inspiral Carpets Ruggles

Andrew Wilfahrt Hugh Smellie George Smiley

Welcome, Simon! Our well known tenor player and Tubby Hayes expert?? Yes, indeed. Was resident professor of Tubbology on AAJ :-)

That's funny! I guess in that way, the novel works. Reading Drabble's "Jerusalem the Golden," I also found it hard to be sympathetic to the heroine. The question I'm still uncertain of, is whether Drabble too found her unsympathetic, and was treating her ironically, of if she identified with the heroine, and meant for the heroine to be taken on her own terms. Maybe it's not an either/or. I have "The Waterfall" hanging about, so will eventually see if there is the shock of recognition. Read it recently. Thanks for your thought-provoking comments. Yes, all sorts of interesting questions arise. How far is the book autobiographical is another one that occurred to me. Perhaps I'll look into that sometime.