May We Borrow Your Husband & Other Comedies of the Sexual Life

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670464104 ISBN 13: 9780670464104

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1967

Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and more interested and involved in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators intent on stealing Poopy Travis's honeymoon husband. Which leaves him free to fall in love with Poopy himself. A widow and a divorcee tipsily discuss the inadequacy of men, deciding that women have much more to offer each other by way of variety in sexual love. A wife holidays alone in Jamaica's cheap season idly hoping for excitement but finding the only man she can have an affair with is far too old and frightened of the dark.. Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours this collection contains some of Greene's saddest observations on the hilarity of sex.

From the Inside Flap:

Affairs, obsessions, grand passions and tiny ardours course through twelve poignant and wryly humorous stories of sexual love. In the title story, author William Harris is in Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more interested in the antics of two homosexual interior decorators. From the macabre of "The Over-night Bag" to the comedy of "Cheap in August," Greene exposes the range of human frailties and insecurities with a sharply observant eye.

From the Back Cover:

"Wit, humour and irony...deployed with a light touch, and...a wicked sense of fun." - Sunday Times