Gordon Comstock is a man in thrall to his principles...
He believes that money lies at the heart of all society's evils,
...When Vittoria Devine & Lily Power find themselves sitting next to each other on a flight to New York, they discover they both
...Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability & worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides instead into a self-induced poverty that destroys his creativity & his spirit.