I see from IMDB.com that there's a filmed version with Kim Novak and Ben Kingsley. The combination of stars is intriguing by itself.
Characteristically for me, and completely un-understandably, I can't remember how it ends. So I'm reading a book that I really like, and enjoying the turn of phrase and the setting and the idea of how the jet-set life affected the youngest of their crowd- and yet I don't remember the plot.
I'd love to cast the film; particularly the discussion after lunch in the Moroccan tent, attended by all the parents but the lion tamer.
Most books should have at least one member of a circus in attendance; but no clowns please.
I finished Edith Wharton's The Children, again, and I suppose the ending is probably one of the only choices she could have made that I wouldn't necessarily have remembered. How do you know when to end a book? Anne Rice asked that question recently on her Facebook page.
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