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Intimate and disconcerting, compelling and comic, an anatomy of the way things are, South of the River is the big British novel for our times - and a tour de force.It opens on the 'new dawn' of Labour's election victory in 1997, and ends five years later. But this is not so much 'state of the nation' as state of our souls, marriages, families, hopes and careers - a sharp and sexy portrait of a dysfunctional group of characters, all different yet connected. There's Nat, failed dramatist and reluctant lecturer, falling for a younger woman; Anthea, an eco-friendly lost soul obesessed with foxes; Libby, hardworking mother and advertising executive, the family breadwinner; Harry, Nat's friend and ex-pupil, a journalist on a local paper, with a guilty secret of his own; and Jack, Nat's blimpish but unexpectedly poignant uncle, who lives for fox-hunting, and runs a failing engineering company in East Anglia.Beneath the bright familiar world of Blair's Britain, there's a dark undertow of political and personal disillusion, of mythologies and urban myths that circle round our apparently comfortable lives. South of the River, a tale of five people, two rivers, and many Englands, metropolitan and rural, black and white, is gloriously readable and brimming with art and life.… (meer)
Het boek begint op de 'nieuwe dag' van Labours verkiezingsoverwinning in 1997 en eindigt vijf jaar later. Aan de hand van vijf personages laat de schrijver zien hoe het land ervoor staat maar meer nog hoe het gesteld is met zijn bewoners, met hun mentaliteit, hun verwachtingen en hun carrière. De hoofdpersonages verschillen van elkaar maar blijven via levenspatronen verbonden. Onder het oppervlak van het stralende Engeland van Tony Blair loopt een zwarte onderstroom van politieke en persoonlijke desillusies, van mythologieën en stadslegendes, waar de ogenschijnlijke comfortabele levens van de hoofdpersonen doortrokken zijn. Rode draad is de vos, figuurlijk én letterlijk. Een boek om in een ruk uit te lezen. Twee dagen, wie doet beter? ( )
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There are many, and also the most part, that creep after his way and his hole... Though they have no red beards, yet there are found more foxes now than ever were heretofore. The righteous people are all lost... I wot not what end shall come to us hereof... History of Reynard the Fox, translated and printed by William Caxton, 1481
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Half a decade later, as she stood by a high window ready to throw herself out, what Libby would remember of that day wasn't the dinner-table conversation with her husband, or the footage of Tony Blair waving to the crowds, or even the interview with the man who would become her lover.
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He moved ahead, into the mist, towards the tall figures, towards the cries, towards the secret of a soft spring night.
Intimate and disconcerting, compelling and comic, an anatomy of the way things are, South of the River is the big British novel for our times - and a tour de force.It opens on the 'new dawn' of Labour's election victory in 1997, and ends five years later. But this is not so much 'state of the nation' as state of our souls, marriages, families, hopes and careers - a sharp and sexy portrait of a dysfunctional group of characters, all different yet connected. There's Nat, failed dramatist and reluctant lecturer, falling for a younger woman; Anthea, an eco-friendly lost soul obesessed with foxes; Libby, hardworking mother and advertising executive, the family breadwinner; Harry, Nat's friend and ex-pupil, a journalist on a local paper, with a guilty secret of his own; and Jack, Nat's blimpish but unexpectedly poignant uncle, who lives for fox-hunting, and runs a failing engineering company in East Anglia.Beneath the bright familiar world of Blair's Britain, there's a dark undertow of political and personal disillusion, of mythologies and urban myths that circle round our apparently comfortable lives. South of the River, a tale of five people, two rivers, and many Englands, metropolitan and rural, black and white, is gloriously readable and brimming with art and life.
Een boek om in een ruk uit te lezen. Twee dagen, wie doet beter? ( )