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Bezig met laden... The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck. A comedy of limitations. (origineel 1915; editie 1924)door James Branch Cabell
Informatie over het werkThe Rivet in Grandfather's Neck : A Comedy of Limitations door James Branch Cabell (1915)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. The greatest of Cabell's early "realistic" comedies, set in Lichfield (in the state of Virginia, in all but name). This British edition contains the page-long preface (summarizing a Han-Christian Anderson fable) as well as the subtitle Cabell added to the book after its initial publication in 1915. A droll book with a heartbreakingly beautiful ending. One of my favorite novels. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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HTML: Though he later gained widespread acclaim as a pioneering writer of fantasy fiction, James Branch Cabell's early novels are largely realistic and dryly humorous in tone. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, which unfolds in early-twentieth-century Virginia, is a comedy of manners set among the upper echelons of Richmond high society. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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I really liked that. My 3 stars is more a general survey of quality than a reflection of personal enjoyment. Its a sort of anti-romance, like '500 Days of Summer' or maybe just a realistic romance like 'When Harry Met Sally'.
Its kind of funny, but not a comedy, did remind me a bit of Jeeves and Wooster at times though.
Set in the deep south of america after the civil war, set amongst the dying aristocracy of the former slave owners. Or rather their descendents and while it doesn't tackle racism head on it gives a good idea of the sort of stubborn minded traditionalism which inevitably tends to create such thinking.
The rivet in the title is really a metaphor for peoples inability to change both on a social and a personal level. The book is very bookish... :P i mean its the sort of writing which doesn't care about normal conventions and might be more appreciated by fellow authors or at least people who read a lot, than average readers.
Overall its a whimsically depressing book about peoples general lack of ambition.
"for it would mirror the life of Lichfield with unengaging candor; and, as a consequence, people would complain that my tragedy lacked sustained interest, and that its participants were inconsistent; that it had no ordered plot, no startling incidents, no high endeavors, and no especial aim; and that it was equally deficient in all time-hallowed provocatives of either laughter or tears." ( )