Walking through Megamall on a Tuesday afternoon with an elder sibling, shortly after a death in the family, would take us to the basement nook Book Sale and a novel by British writer William Boyd going for little more than a hundred pesos.
Likely pre-loved and now on its 30th anniversary since first published, The Blue Afternoon is a rabble-rousing romance set in turn of century Manila, around the height of the Fil-American war, a certified potboiler from the author who had recast Ian Fleming’s James Bond in another novel.
Thus starts their own version of amorous misadventures and palpitating episodes in a tragicomedy of manners, complete with guardia civil and taxi dancers and subplots galore including an anesthetist named Quiroga obsessed with his flying machine invention, admittedly a supporting role but a show stopper if played by the likes of John Lloyd Cruz, who could do his Lt. Papauran character one better.
“He could not hold back for long and when the moment came the absolute stillness of their posture, the lack of bodily contact, of any heaving or straining, made it seem dreamlike, otherworldly, as if this extraordinary experience were happening while he lay buoyant in some tepid stream or was held in the windshifted topmost branches of some mighty tree.”
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