Story-Portal

Come Like Shadows is the eighth novel in Simon Raven’s bestselling ‘Alms for Oblivion’ series. In it he traces the continuing checkered career of Fielding Gray, ex-soldier and writer, who is persuaded by his friend Tom Llewyllyn to join a film unit in Corfu as script adaptor for a movie of The Odyssey. Arch-cad and lecher Fielding strikes problems with opposing interpretations of the epic - from pornographic to orthodox Marxist - but with a little studied manipulation he contrives to indulge most of his dubious tastes outside script writing, what with the kinky leading lady Sasha and a neat blackmail deal on the side. But this kind of wheeling and dealing has a habit of backfiring ...