Contango

Contango is a book by James Hilton. Hilton was an English novelist and playwriter. Excerpt: "Gathergood was forty-nine, and had spent a quarter of a century in

various parts of the East. He had never married, nor had rumour

ever associated him with a woman, white or coloured. He was aware

that women did not particularly care for him, and he had never

found their indifference hard to endure. With men, individual

men, he had sometimes wished he could become more intimate, but

even the wish for this had rarely been enough to make for keen

disappointment."