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Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow is a 1958 novel from William Goldman. Background. Goldman wrote the book after a 50-week break following his first novel and finished it in seven days. (Other accounts say ten.)
Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow is a 1958 novel from William Goldman. Background. Goldman wrote the book after a 50-week break following his first novel and finished it in seven days. (Other accounts say ten.)
Only Goldman's second novel and already a recurring theme/trope is emerging. The protagonist presuming to teach and transform the prostitute into something better just as Trevitt attempted with Terry in The Temple of Gold. Here Peter actually names Pygmalion, which apt pupil Tillie begins to jot down as "Pig...."
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YOUR TURN TO CURTSY MY TURN TO BOW. by William Goldman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 4, 1958. The antic clowning of The Temple of Gold gives way to pathos only in a second, slighter story of a summer when the shattering of ideals and idols makes a man of a boy.
Peter Bell, age 17, spends a summer between high school and college working his first job as counselor at a camp. We follow Peter's life-changing friendship with another male counselor and Peter's life-changing infatuation with a young woman.
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Your Turn to Curtsy, My Turn to Bow is a 1958 novel from William Goldman. Background. Goldman wrote the book after a 50 week break following his first novel and finished it in seven days. (Other accounts say ten.
