The Naive and Sentimental Lover (Penguin Modern Classics)

Aldo Cassidy is the naive and sentimental lover. A successful, judicious man, he is wrenched away from the ordered certainties of his life by a sudden encounter with Shamus, a wild, carousing artist and Helen, his nakedly alluring wife.

Cassidy, plunged into a whirlpool of recklessness and spontaneity, becomes a man bewildered and agonised as he is torn between two poles of a nature more complex than he had ever imagined.

Aldo Cassidy este iubitul naiv si sentimental. Un barbat de succes, judicios, este indepartat de sigurantele ordonate ale vietii sale printr-o intalnire brusca cu Shamus, un artist salbatic si plin de viata si cu Helen, sotia sa ademenitoare. omul nedumerit si agonisit in timp ce este sfasiat intre doi poli de o natura mai complexa decat isi imaginase vreodata.