
Bliss Pool Water
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About This Novel
This book is Thorne Smith's most poignant social satire and humorous novel, set during the implementation of the Volstead Act (the Prohibition Act). A stubborn, unrestrained older man and woman are celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of their successful mutual seduction. Rex Pebble, a fashionable older man, is having a tryst with another woman behind his wife's back, while his partner, Spray Summers, is a difficult lover. Their Japanese male servant Nojima's behavior is infuriating, he drinks excessively, and uses English as judo to talk to his master. The two slipped into the garden swimming pool. They didn't know that the water in the pool had just possessed the magic power to return people to youth. The man and woman threw away their clothes and modesty. After emerging from the water, they suddenly looked decades younger and regained their youthful bodies. The two experienced and skillful people, plus a girl who turned into a sculpture standing in the middle of the pool, a few neighbors, two robbers, a team of firefighters, Mrs. Pebble who came in a hurry, and a psychic who didn't know where they came from, all these people were wild and carnival, and staged one incredible farce after another from dusk to dawn the next day? Comedy? A satire?
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