LAID BARE
Bare Nell. By Leslie Thomas. Eyre Methuen. 330 pp. $12.65.
“Even as a voting girl tn the West Country of England I realised that I was intended for an unusual life. . . I knew that one day perhaps I could become a famous writer or a famous whore. It was my spelling let me down.” So writes Nelly Luscombe an engaging twentieth century Moll Flanders who gallops her way with zest through a series of thoroughly modern sexual adventures. “Bare Nell” just evades the accusation that it is pornography for its own sake; it becomes a picaresque nove' in the tradition of "Tom Jones. ’ Compared with much . hard pornography from some modern American writers, which is passed otf a, "having literary merit.” pretty Nell shows an honest exuberance for her work, generally free from bizarre aberrations. For those who eijov this sort of thing, the result is a welter of rpf eshingly clean dirt. — NAYLOR HILLARY.
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Press, 4 March 1978, Page 17
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