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In England, a housewife eggs on another to liberate herself and when the other abandons her family to travel the world pursues her with letters. The missives, a jumble of apologies, condemnation, admiration, envy and confessions of her own unhappiness, portray the loneliness and boredom of suburban life.… (mehr)
This slim novel is written in epistolary style, as Eliza Peabody writes letters to her former neighbor who is presumably off on some world-wide adventure. As time goes on and Eliza tries to relate what is happening in the neighborhood it becomes clear to the reader that she is not fully connected to reality. At times the work is poignant, other times quite funny, occasionally puzzling, occasionally horrifying and mostly entertaining (if you can consider watching someone descend into madness as entertaining).
I’ve read a number of Gardam’s works and I really appreciate the way she draws her characters. But I felt I didn’t really get to know Eliza, her husband, or any of the other characters that populated this work. It just missed the mark for me as compared to other books by her that I’ve read. I liked it, but didn’t love it.
The novel won Britain’s Whitebread Award for Best Novel of the Year in 1991. ( )
This book somewhat grew on me as you have to read carefully. It to miss any clues. The ending was very surprising and I a, still not sure that I know what is going on. I found parts of it somewhat pretentious though. ( )
Generally speaking, I have an aversion to stories told from the perspective of mentally ill characters, stories that have parts that are fantasies of a character, and the reader is tricked into believing they are factual events in the story and magical realism. This belongs in the first category. ( )
A wonderful, wonderful read -- smart, wincing, a surprisingly large scope. Sentence to sentence, one of the best writers I've read. In her artistry and skill reflecting her characters' emotions, on the level of [a:Hillary Mantel|8294944|Hillary Mantel|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-a7c55399ea455530473b9f9e4da94c40.png]. This is also fabulous for anyone who loves reading -- or aspires to write -- an epistolary novel. Through her increasingly crazed letters to Joan, Eliza comes out a fascinating, disturbed, hilarious and very, very funny person. ( )
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For she's the Queen Of the Tambourine The Cymbals and the Bones.
Music Hall Song
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For Rhododendria
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Dear Joan,
I do hope I know you well enough to say this.
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Why should I spend hours all by myself in a room writing books just to amuse some people I've never met for a few hours on an aeroplane before they get pulped? I mean the books get pulped. They have a shelf-life of six weeks most of them and a good thing, too. They're like package puddings. It was in the Guardian. There are dozens of novels spewed forth, most of them tripe and all the poor authors think they've started out on an immortal career. Might as well masturbate.
The old women of the tribe have almost always been the wiser. If they keep their marbles long enough. Old men forget - or tend to reminisce, and reminisce falsely and sententiously as a rule. We are often very sill in our middle years but we tend to improve - as our marriages often do. Women who survive, survive better than men. It's because our lives - our physical lives - are more dramatic.
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In England, a housewife eggs on another to liberate herself and when the other abandons her family to travel the world pursues her with letters. The missives, a jumble of apologies, condemnation, admiration, envy and confessions of her own unhappiness, portray the loneliness and boredom of suburban life.
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I’ve read a number of Gardam’s works and I really appreciate the way she draws her characters. But I felt I didn’t really get to know Eliza, her husband, or any of the other characters that populated this work. It just missed the mark for me as compared to other books by her that I’ve read. I liked it, but didn’t love it.
The novel won Britain’s Whitebread Award for Best Novel of the Year in 1991. (