Amiche devote
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Jessica e Jane hanno vissuto insieme per sei mesi e sono amiche devote: ma lo sono davvero? Jessica ama l'amica con la cattiveria della possessività assoluta; Jane è ricca, sciocca e beve troppo. L'amico comune Sylvester le osserva e, per quanto si dispiaccia che Jane debba essere "amata e maltrattata e magari assassinata da quella orrenda Jessica", decide che non sono affari suoi. Al contrario, quando il gentiluomo irlandese George Playfair incontra Jane, la pensa diversamente e convince la giovane ad andare in Irlanda accompagnata da una Jessica riluttante -, dove inizia la lotta per conquistare la sua devozione. Eccoci quindi nel mondo tanto caro all'autrice, e sotto l'occhio un po' cinico del sofisticato Sylvester assistiamo a una girandola di relazioni e di lotte di potere, dove quasi niente finisce bene. Autrice di prim'ordine, Molly Keane è abile nel creare i personaggi e capire cosa c'è sotto la superficie dei comportamenti e questo, unitamente al suo spirito affilato, l'ha resa unica nel catturare il vischioso snobismo e il raffinato razzismo delle grandi casate irlandesi degli anni venti e trenta.
- ISBN: 8898713592
- Casa Editrice: astoria
- Pagine: 256
- Data di uscita: 20-10-2016
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I do love a book which divides opinion. As I was preparing to write about my reactions to the novel, I glanced over a few reviews of it on Librarything.com and Goodreads.com – and there certainly seems to be as many people who really liked it as didn’t. So before I go any further I must immediately Leggi tutto
What a horrible book. Evil lesbian, "nasty" appearing to be used to mean "homosexual" (as in, "Albert was a nasty boy"), casual racism. And even without all that it was a relentlessly unpleasant book. Three stars because it was so effectively, deliberately horrible. I was absorbed even as my brain ma Leggi tutto
Keane is a new discovery and a happy one for me. She wrote this novel as a response to a newfound awareness of homosexuals in her society, both set and written in the 1930's. Keane saw gays as a fresh cast of characters for a novel. Here, she satirizes the upper, fox-hunting, class, skewering their
Closer to 3.5 I had never heard of Molly Keane until a friend recently suggested that I check out her work, specifically 'Devoted Ladies' (due, I guess, to its addition of gay characters; something Keane didn't normally do). Knowing I was a huge fan of P.G. Wodehouse, my friend let me know that he t Leggi tutto
Too lazy and busy to write a review right now, but I loved this book, and now I want to read more of Keane's stuff. What a joy to discover a new author to love...
When I spotted a Virago copy of Devoted Ladies by M.J. Farrell in an Oxford charity shop, I knew precisely three things about M. J Farrell: 1. She was Irish. 2. She also wrote under the name of Molly Keane – a name popular among bloggers who are avid readers of Virago Modern Classics. 3. Her work was c Leggi tutto
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