Round 9: Tossup 10

This author created a boozy couple who fear a crowd of Korean sailors and eavesdrop on a British couple waiting for a yacht to be repaired. A novel by this author begins with the protagonist’s family purchasing a half-dead horse and ends with the hunter Joseph giving his weapons to peasants to kill cadastral agents on a floodplain. This author of Emily L. and The Sea Wall created an upper-class wife who meets with a working-class man while her son takes piano lessons in an unsavory part of the city. A schoolgirl created by this author meets a man on a river ferry and rides into town in his chauffeured limousine. A novel by this author about a colonial girl’s relationship with an older Chinese man draws on her impoverished upbringing in French Indochina. For 10 points, name this nouveau roman writer of Moderato Cantabile and The Lover. (10[1])■END■

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