Good Behaviour - Brossura

Keane, Molly

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0349120757 ISBN 13: 9780349120751

Casa editrice: Abacus, 1998

Riassunto

I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...'

Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behaviour. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. This elegant and allusive novel established Molly Keane as the natural successor to Jean Rhys.

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Recensione:

I really wish I had written this book. It's a tragi-comedy set in Ireland after the First World War. A real work of craftsmanship, where the heroine is also the narrator, yet has no idea what is going on. You read it with mounting horror and hilarity as you begin to grasp her delusion (Hilary Mantel)

I have read and re-read Molly Keane more, I think, than any other writer. Nobody else can touch her as a satirist, tragedian, and dissector of human behaviour. I love all her books, but Good Behaviour and Loving and Giving are the ones I return to most (Maggie O'Farrell)

An extraordinary tour de force of fictional presentation... a masterpiece... a technically remarkable work, as sharp as a blade... Molly Keane is a mistress of wicked comedy. (VOGUE)

A witty, black comedy of manners, GOOD BEHAVIOUR is a memorable novel by an Irish writer whose only equal is Elizabeth Bowen. (BOOKSELLER)

A fine novel, wickedly alive (Victoria Glendinning, SUNDAY TIMES)

Enchanting (Edna O'Brien, OBSERVER)

Descrizione del libro:

*A brilliant comic novel about Anglo-Ireland that was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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• Editore: Abacus
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0349120757
• ISBN 13: 9780349120751
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 256