He also writes the poetry collection Mice and laments that he has never seen a single customer at McKechnie's bookshop take it out of its shelf.  
The protagonist of this work is irritated when his friend mentions his incomplete poem London Pleasures.  He also writes the poetry collection Mice and laments that he has never seen a single customer at McKechnie's bookshop take it out of its shelf.  After receiving a fifty dollar check from an American literary journal, the protagonist gives five pounds to his sister Julia, goes to a seedy hotel where he fails to have sex with two prostitutes, and ends up in jail.  Although he begins by declaring war on the "money god", the protagonist eventually accepts the encouragement of Philip Ravelston and marries his pregnant girlfriend Rosemary Waterlow.  FTP, name this novel following Gordon Comstock, a work of George Orwell.
The protagonist of this work is irritated when his friend mentions his incomplete poem London Pleasures.  
Keep the Aspidistra Flying