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Sinossi
Ad Ascot, nella tribuna della Royal Enclosure, tra le matrone coi loro fronzoli di organza, Edith Lavery, figlia di un revisore di conti, spicca davvero. Col suo elegante tailleur di lino celeste, la sua grazia giovanile, il cappellino che le dà un'aria frivola e così sobria e chic, è davvero irresistibile. Agli occhi soprattutto di Charles, conte di Broughton, aristocratico purissimo e... suo prossimo consorte, erede del marchese di Uckfield, figlio di Lady Uckfield, la celebre e terribile Googie, ancien riche che ha accresciuto la sua ricchezza con la Thatcher e l'ha raddoppiata con l'accomodante New Labour. Con la sua scrittura elegante, misurata e ironica, che "ricorda Jane Austen e Evelyn Waugh" (Tim Lott), Julian Fellowes ci offre, con "Snob", un romanzo esilarante che ci svela i codici, i rituali, le abitudini di un mondo ostinatamente chiuso in se stesso e ossessionato dal pericolo di nouveaux riches e parvenus d'ogni specie.
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- Pagine: 331
- Data di uscita: 24-11-2016
Recensioni
Snobs was initially a pleasurably satirical and snippy read, but after numerous chapters of the seemingly endless and very tedious ins-and-outs of aristocratic society, it started to become - to employ a word used frequently in the book - dreary, and by the end I didn't care what happened. It was we Leggi tutto
This is the first book I’ve read by Fellowes though I enjoyed Downton Abbey a lot. Snobs sort of takes one back into that world but in a more modern time (the 1990s) and certainly turned out quite different from what I’d expected. Our unnamed narrator (rather like Nancy Mitford’s Fanny Wincham, but Leggi tutto
As delicious as fizzy lemonade and only slightly more substantive, this novel by the screenwriter of “Gosford Park” takes you through the courtship and marriage of a middle-class beauty (“I knew she was a social climber; I didn’t realize she was a mountaineer!”) and an aristocratic dullard. No one e Leggi tutto
Wow. this guy really nailed it. This book reminded me of someone paring a fish with the ease of a surgeon. Fellows examines social protocol in a certain circle by flaking it from the chaos of conversation, holding it up to the light, and explaining exactly why everything about it is preposterous. Ev Leggi tutto
"Snobs" is an entertaining fictionalised study of the fascinating world of British snobbery. Due to his origin and life experience, Julian Fellowes is well-posed and well-equipped for writing about this topic. Is "Snobs" likely to leave an everlasting, life-changing trace in the reader's heart? Defin Leggi tutto
Я почти придумала гадкую рецензию, где фигурируют фразы "секс плохой зато ко мне обращаются миледи", "лучше пересмотрите Аббатство Даунтон", "а у нас слуг в семнадцатом году отменили", "жаль что в начале века не было журнала Хеллоу", "занудство и морализаторство", "Кейт Миддлтон хотя бы милая", "мы Leggi tutto
Slow to start. The characters have too much time on their hands. I read this like a science project, and from that point of view it was interesting. I'm too American for understanding the time wasting that goes on here. Somebody should just forget all this, go into the kitchen and bake a pie.
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