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Sto caricando le informazioni... Every Day Is Mother's Day (originale 1985; edizione 2000)di Hilary Mantel (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Evelyn Axon is an aging medium who lives with her mentally disabled daughter Muriel in a deteriorating Victorian house with a run-down lean-to out back. Muriel’s latest social worker, Isabel Field, is having an affair with the history teacher Colin Sidney, whose sister Florence is one of the Axon’s neighbors. Will Colin leave his wife and three bratty children for Isabel? What is haunting the Axon house? And who made Muriel pregnant? By turns creepy and funny, Mantel’s first published novel is intelligent and eminently readable. Quite good. Witty, literary, sharp. Expects you to keep up, but accessible. Occult, like Mantel's 'Beyond Black.' Interesting to see her earlier take on the subject. Set in the seventies and featuring a philandering husband, dull jobs, misbehaving children, a social worker and her woeful clients. A lot of misery crammed into a small book and somehow dealt with humorously while not irreverently. Mantel is really a genius. I can't figure out why I didn't love it except that it deals with some pretty heavy subjects. Child abuse, I guess. One of the best horrible dinner party scenes ever written. Full of brilliant lines: "Frank whirled about, Sylvia's coat in his arm like a comatose dancing partner". nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Evelyn Axon and Muriel, her half-witted daughter, are a problem. Barricaded into their house filled with festering rubbish, unhealthy smells and their secrets, they baffle Isabel Field, the latest in a long line of social workers. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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Colin is unhappy in his marriage to Sylvia and aggravated by their noisy self-absorbed children. The course of his affair with Isabel is well described and like everything in the book carries an air of depressing gloom. Black comedy elements include the stultifying Christmas scene at Colin's family home and a dinner party he and Sylvia attend which gives Abigail's party a run for its money.
It becomes clear nearer the end that Evelyn's deceased husband was a monster -