Jan 4, 2010

My Uncle Oswald | Characters

When the novel begins, Oswald is a strikingly handsome seventeen-year-old who has become bored with the girls of London, having bedded more than sixty of them. Feeling in need of wider experience, he travels to Paris, where he learns of the powerful aphrodisiac made from crushed North African blister beetles. A pinhead of the powder is said to drive a man wild for sex and to allow him to maintain an erection for hours. Seeing an opportunity to combine his two chief passions in life, sex and money, Oswald travels to Egypt, buys five pounds of the stuff, returns to Paris, and sets up...