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One Hot Summer in Kyoto
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Hot and sticky describes the ancient Japanese city of Kyoto in summer. And that is just the situation Peter Meadowes finds himself in when he flees to Kyoto for his summer vacation. During the rest of the year the middle-aged Meadowes teaches in Tokyo, a circumstance which conveniently enables him to leave his commanding wife (who hates Japan) back in England.
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Overall I think this novel mostly wins out, but it walks a dangerous line. For starters, this being 36 years old, it's a bit hard to feel how much of the gross masculinity is realistic and how much is exaggerated for comedy.
Even today, it what I think most would describe as a much more PC environment, I've met people a bit like our sex obsessed main character, so I can believe that they were rampant in the early 80's... An English professor far more focused on bedding locals than spreading knowl ...more
Even today, it what I think most would describe as a much more PC environment, I've met people a bit like our sex obsessed main character, so I can believe that they were rampant in the early 80's... An English professor far more focused on bedding locals than spreading knowl ...more
Summer in Japan is hot and sticky – and I am not even living in Kyoto at the moment. But nowadays all big city summers in Japan are terrible because of the heat-sink phenomenon, Kyoto is nothing exceptional anymore. So what could be more fitting in all the stickiness than reading a book about Kyoto summers I bought several years ago but which has been sitting unopened on my shelves? I am talking about the novel One Hot Summer in Kyoto by John Haylock, which I rediscovered earlier this month duri
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