The book's few lesser moments occur at the Chelsea Hotel, where a cast of eccentrics - including a man who wears angel's wings and a wedding dress - are asked to carry cheap metaphorical freight.
"Born into rich and noble families, such people will become romantic eccentrics;"
This is a gripping story, expertly handled by Benjamin Wallace who writes with wit and verve, drawing the reader into a subculture strewn with eccentrics and monomaniacs.
Plug-in cars face a long, tough battle to break beyond a small but devoted audience of Hollywood stars, eccentrics and passionate environmentalists.
In doing so, Kang narrates the effect of Dali's personality in the past as half of his surrounding were in awe of his eccentrics whereas the other half felt a strong irritation to his mannerism.
Bearded eccentrics in cluttered attics, and lavender-scented maiden aunts, will continue to practise it, just as there will still be people who bake their own bread or scythe the meadow grass.
Qing Dynasty "Eight eccentrics of Yangzhou" one "strange" Shen Wong is a Master figure paintings.
This translates into some gloriously diverse parishes, where well-bred eccentrics meet Filipino domestics, east European builders and African asylum-seekers.
Another Tory riposte is that weirdos and eccentrics can also be found in other European blocks, all of which are necessarily broad and eclectic coalitions.
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