Blue Boy: A Tale of Wasting Assets

George Stubbs

ISBN 10: 0936315504 / ISBN 13: 9780936315508

Published by Starhaven, London, 2022

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Signed by the author with a personal inscription on the title page dated 2022. Light wear to covers otherwise very good.

Seller Inventory # 1523

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blue Boy: A Tale of Wasting Assets
• Publisher: Starhaven, London
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0936315504
• ISBN 13: 9780936315508
• Binding: Softcover
• Condition: Good
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Collectible

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Synopsis

Robbie Wilder is superficially charming, good-looking, a dandy in dress, cultivated and perhaps talented. As he makes a rake’s progress across recent contemporary London, we discover that he is also a liar, a petty thief, a mummy’s boy, an alcoholic, an onanist and a fantasist, expert in self-pity. What is a ‘blue boy’, his case seems to ask. What has the type ever been but a spendthrift of great expectations, an adept at the art of ‘wasting assets’? With pathos, irony and a dash of Waughian wit, Stubbs evokes the malaise and perverse sense of entitlement lurking behind class privilege.