Mostly what he meets are Marion's many previous lovers, who keep turning up as they wander the grubbily photographed streets.
None of her escapades, for instance, are as unsavory as the AC-DC boy-meets-boy encounters of James Baldwin's Another Country, nor are they as grubbily explicit as the climactic .
From prostitution in "half-hour hotels," Marie-Paule had gone on to living grubbily with men, and then to being kept, and then to marriage and motherhood and expanding her .