My (DFL's) comments on ODALISQUE (by PF Jeffery) as I read the novel weekly chapter by chapter.
The author of ODALISQUE has been kind enough to send me a CD of the whole novel. He started writing this novel in the nineteen-eighties. Recently completed (June 2008).
I hope to read this novel chapter by chapter on a weekly basis - and record some thoughts on THE LINKS BELOW. There are 50 chapters plus epilogue.
The author is happy for me to send to you a word-document of each chapter at any time, at your request. My address is bfitzworth@yahoo.co.uk
THE AUTHOR HAS ADDED SOME OF HIS OWN COUNTER-COMMENTS TO MOST OF MY COMMENTS. IF YOU ADD SOME COMMENTS OF YOUR OWN, PLEASE INFORM ME AT THE ABOVE EMAIL ADDRESS OTHERWISE I MAY NOT NOTICE (OR BE ABLE TO ALERT THE AUTHOR ABOUT) YOUR COMMENT.
I am a long-term epistolary friend of the author (handwritten letters from 1967 on a rough weekly basis).
I believe in ODALISQUE as a great fantasy/horror novel (spiritual, grotesque and humorous), but I am still in the personal throes of grappling with its strangely powerful (for me, almost alien) ethos -- greatly assisted by its beautifully silky style of expression.
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NOW COMPLETE
CHAPTER ONE - Awakening
CHAPTER TWO - Love
CHAPTER THREE - Unease
CHAPTER FOUR - Departures
CHAPTER FIVE - Services
CHAPTER SIX - Enslavement
CHAPTER SEVEN - Travelling
CHAPTER EIGHT - Destinations
CHAPTER NINE - Torment
CHAPTER TEN - Barbarians
CHAPTER ELEVEN - Pregnancy
CHAPTER TWELVE - Lactation
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Sale
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - Brothel
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - Whoredom
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - Rooms
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - Whorlets
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - Transitions
CHAPTER NINETEEN - Toiling
CHAPTER TWENTY - Carting
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - Deliverance
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - Settling
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - Household
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - Concubine
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE - War
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX - Pollygoggers
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN - River
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT - Palace
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE - Unharnessing
CHAPTER THIRTY - Samples
CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE - Lessons
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO - Ruby
CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE - Cursed
CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR - Trial
CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE - Advances
CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX - Dancing
CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN - Training
CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT - Solstice
CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE - Masque
CHAPTER FORTY - Engaged
CHAPTER FORTY-ONE - Grim
CHAPTER FORTY-TWO - Intrigue
CHAPTER FORTY-THREE - Errands
CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR - Marriage
CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE - Rode
CHAPTER FORTY-SIX - Road
CHAPTER FORTY-SEVEN - Battlefields
CHAPTER FORTY-EIGHT - Ending
CHAPTER FORTY-NINE - Coronation
CHAPTER FIFTY - Beginning
EPILOGUE
2008 Interview with PF (Pet) Jeffery HERE.
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all my recent reviews of books by other writers are linked from HERE
And other links for more PF Jeffery material are linked from HERE.
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