Playing the Harlot.
first edition
(1996).
by [LARKIN, Philip]. Strang, Patsy writing as “Patricia Avis.”
London: Virago, (1996).. First edition.. 252 pp. A few light wrinkles to covers, else near fine in glossy illustrated wrappers. Larkin is fictionalized in this novel as “Rollo Jute.” Strang and Larkin had an affair while Larkin was a librarian at Queens University. The novel itself was rejected by Charles Monteith of Faber & Faber, as he felt it slandered his friends. (Inventory #: 72111)