An anecdote, perhaps apocryphal, but wonderful nonetheless:
When Bowles sent this story to his British agent, he was told that it just would not find an outlet in the UK. Bowles asked why, and the agent is alleged to have said: “because your English readership may take the incest. They may take the buggery. But, by God, they will not take the blackmail”.
How can you resist?
First published in Wake, 1949, then in The Delicate Prey, Random House 1950, now in Collected Stories, Penguin, 2009
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