Book description
At the age of 38, Aldo Cassidy in the eyes of the world, if not his
wife, is a wealthy and good man. He in ingenious and thrusting. He has
founded his own business, his inventions have made him the success
story of the pram trade. Nevertheless, inwardly the earnest and
aspiring merchant yearns for more: to invest his heart with the same
success with which once he invested his talents and his money. Touring
Somerset in the protective isolation of his splendid Bentley, vaguely
searching for a stately home which, in his fantasy, might supply him
with the identity of an English country gentleman, he encounters a
charming if wayward couple, Helen and Shamus, and falls in love with
them both. Suddenly his prayers have been answered.
By turns their disciple, patron, lover, Cassidy is swept deliriously,
ferociously, and yet somehow always innocently into that bewildering
world where feeling is the only justification for action; a world at
once creative and destructive. His odyssey takes him through Paris,
through the intellectual reaches of north London, and finally to the
Alps of the Bernese Oberland.
With humour, pain and love, The Sentimental Lover describes
the night-walk of a man caught between the two sides of his aspiring nature.
