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By David Lehner

ISBN-10: 1564745295

ISBN-13: 9781564745293

dependent loosely on Petronius's The Satyricon, Eclipse is a wild, nightmarish event. sincere and earnest Tom Jones and his unprincipled stockbroker buddy Alex Jenkins wander via a labyrinth of golf equipment and the estates of rich associates in the hunt for Sophia Weston, who Tom thinks is virtuous yet whom the priapic Alex is familiar with extra approximately. This odyssey, which starts as an get away from academia, turns into a crash direction for Tom within the paintings of debauchery, a direction Tom doesn't desire to ace. Alex urges Tom on from get together to get together, from domestic to domestic, usually within the corporation of wealthy wastrels with an excessive amount of time on their fingers and an excessive amount of liquor of their blood. yet despite Alex's infectious ardour for amorality, Tom resists the enticements of robbery, promiscuity, swindling and falsehood until eventually his ultimate assembly with Sophia.

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