Roger Boylan
@BoylanRoger
Novelist. Author of "KILLOYLE," "THE GREAT PINT-PULLING OLYMPIAD," and "THE ADORATIONS." Published by http://www.dalkeyarchive.com. https://groveatlantic.com/
"What makes Boylan’s novel so brilliant is that it’s relatable. It conjures up early 20th century Paris and Vienna with superlative clarity while describing events and characters that are all entirely relevant." --Dante Pettapiece. Read it and see if you agree!
Marcel Proust at the Hôtel Splendide in Évian-les-Bains, 1905.
Old manor house, with typical Swiss shutters in the colors of Canton Vaud, in the hills near Montreux.
Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's beautiful "Autumn Sonata," 1978.
François Truffaut and Jacqueline Bisset during filming "La nuit américaine" ("Day for Night"), 1973.
Claire Bloom and Richard Burton in Martin Ritt's "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold," 1965.
Jorge Luis Borges and Ernesto Sabato drinking next to a faux-naif painting of leopards.
Lucian Freud and Brendan Behan at the Mansion House, Dublin, 1952.
Main entrance of Ecolint, the International School of Geneva, where I was educated and had, on balance, a good time growing up.
William Butler Yeats and Georgiana, his wife, in the 1920s.
View from Hay Bluff with Hay on Wye in the valley, Powys, Wales.
Hermann Hesse and his cat "Löwe" at the Casa Rossa, Montagnola, Switzerland.
Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable on the set of John Huston's "The Misfits," 1961.
