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Several Deceptions
Acclaimed in England, these wicked and wonderfully entertaining novellas deal with the infinite human capacity for deception and self-deception. The four stories in this remarkably assured work are beautifully shaped and deftly plotted; each is narrated by a richly distinctive voice, and each ends with a genuine surprise. The themes are wide-ranging: the mysteries of ident...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
September 19th 2000
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published 1999)
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I found this collection of four novellas (Stevenson's first) a bit disappointing after enjoying Good Women so much.The first story is too similar to the first story in Good Women -- a snobbish, too-clever man fatally underestimates a woman he considers his social inferior. In the remaining stories, she dips into radically different milieus: aristocratic students in Amsterdam, an Irishwoman who becomes a Buddhist nun in India, a group of snobbish, unpleasant art historians in the Home Counties. ...more
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fans of long and sophisticated narrative prose
Several Deceptions is a book containing four stories, each one with a very distinctive voice.
I've never read a book like this one before. Though it's well written and everything, I couldn't bring myself to fully enjoy it for the fantastic work of literature that it is. Maybe I'll appreciate Deceptions more in a few years or so.
I've never read a book like this one before. Though it's well written and everything, I couldn't bring myself to fully enjoy it for the fantastic work of literature that it is. Maybe I'll appreciate Deceptions more in a few years or so.
didn;t finish this one either; put it down halfway and never picked it back up.
Just as wonderful as her later book, Good Women. I loved the trickiness of her plots.
I especially loved the third story -- Judy O'Grady....
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Dr. Jane Stevenson (born 1959) is a UK author who was born in London and brought up in London, Beijing and Bonn. She has lectured in history at Sheffield University, and teaches literature and history at the University of Aberdeen. Her fiction books include Several Deceptions, a collection of four novellas; a novel, London Bridges; and the historical trilogy made up of the novels The Winter Queen,...more
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