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    <body><![CDATA[We gain a lot of our identity from the things we surround us with, especially the things in our homes. If suddenly all our possessions are taken from us, what then?<br/>This is what happens to the Ransoms, a middleage couple, who when arriving home from the opera discover that all they have is the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34386637">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It was interesting, and different from my usual reading. The &quot;how would I feel if I lost all my material possessions&quot; theme is not a new one, but this story certainly gives it an original twist. Some of the key quotes for me: &quot;Marriage, to Mrs. Ransome, had often seemed a kind of pare...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30892163">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dem Ehepaar Ransome wird während eines Opernbesuches im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes die gesamte Wohnung ausgeräumt - es gibt nicht einmal mehr Klopapier. Wie sich das Leben dieses typischen britischen Middleclass-Ehepaars -steif, prüde, leicht versnobt- durch diesen Vorfall ändert, schildert Benne...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67218367">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A starred book on my reading list, this was a disappointment. Bennett begins with a couple returning home to discover their apartment totally stripped; ALL their possessions are gone. It's a promising premise for our materialistic culture, but for Bennett it's only the stage for a modest domestic dr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67088684">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Ransomes had been burgled. &quot;Robbed,&quot; Mrs. Ransome said. &quot;Burgled,&quot; Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though &quot;burgled&quot; was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove one item and ignore others. There is a limit to what burglars can take: they seldom take easy chairs, for example, and even more seldom settees. These burglars did. They took everything.<br/><br/>This swift-moving comic fable will surprise you with its concealed depths. When the sedate Ransomes return from the opera to find their Notting Hill flat stripped absolutely bare&#8212;down to the toilet paper off the roll (a hard-to-find shade of forget-me-not blue)&#8212;they face a dilemma: Who are they without the things they've spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly the world is full of unlimited and frightening possibility. But just as they begin adjusting to this giddy freedom, a newfound interest in sex, and a lack of comfy chairs, a surreal reversal of events causes them to question their assumptions yet again. <br/><br/>The Ransomes' bafflement is the reader's delight. Alan Bennett's gentle but scathing wit, unerring ear for dialogue, and sense of the absurd make <strong>The Clothes They Stood Up In</strong> a memorable exploration of where in life true riches lie.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Really enjoyed this one. Perhaps more a long short story than novel. Easy to see Bennett's playwriting background in the dialogue, but the jumps between points of view - which I liked - would be hard to stage. Story inspired plenty of &quot;what if this happened to me?&quot; thinking. Lot of great h...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67384995">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Ransomes had been burgled. &quot;Robbed,&quot; Mrs. Ransome said. &quot;Burgled,&quot; Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though &quot;burgled&quot; was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove one item and ignore others. There is a limit to what burglars can take: they seldom take easy chairs, for example, and even more seldom settees. These burglars did. They took everything.<br/><br/>This swift-moving comic fable will surprise you with its concealed depths. When the sedate Ransomes return from the opera to find their Notting Hill flat stripped absolutely bare&#8212;down to the toilet paper off the roll (a hard-to-find shade of forget-me-not blue)&#8212;they face a dilemma: Who are they without the things they've spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly the world is full of unlimited and frightening possibility. But just as they begin adjusting to this giddy freedom, a newfound interest in sex, and a lack of comfy chairs, a surreal reversal of events causes them to question their assumptions yet again. <br/><br/>The Ransomes' bafflement is the reader's delight. Alan Bennett's gentle but scathing wit, unerring ear for dialogue, and sense of the absurd make <strong>The Clothes They Stood Up In</strong> a memorable exploration of where in life true riches lie.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[My playwright friend enlightened me about the author Alan Bennett. Bennett is a playwright himself whose first novel is this parable. It’s the sorry of the ironically named rather traditional couple called the Ransomes.<br/><br/>One day, mysteriously they are robbed off ALL the items in their ap...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9186989">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Ransomes had been burgled. &quot;Robbed,&quot; Mrs. Ransome said. &quot;Burgled,&quot; Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though &quot;burgled&quot; was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove one item and ignore others. There is a limit to what burglars can take: they seldom take easy chairs, for example, and even more seldom settees. These burglars did. They took everything.<br/><br/>This swift-moving comic fable will surprise you with its concealed depths. When the sedate Ransomes return from the opera to find their Notting Hill flat stripped absolutely bare&#8212;down to the toilet paper off the roll (a hard-to-find shade of forget-me-not blue)&#8212;they face a dilemma: Who are they without the things they've spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly the world is full of unlimited and frightening possibility. But just as they begin adjusting to this giddy freedom, a newfound interest in sex, and a lack of comfy chairs, a surreal reversal of events causes them to question their assumptions yet again. <br/><br/>The Ransomes' bafflement is the reader's delight. Alan Bennett's gentle but scathing wit, unerring ear for dialogue, and sense of the absurd make <strong>The Clothes They Stood Up In</strong> a memorable exploration of where in life true riches lie.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the first book I read by this author, so why not try another.  A couple returns from the opera to find everything-literally-stolen from their apartment.  What you learn about the couple, and what they learn about themselves, especially the wife, is a short read with a bit of dry wit and a to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58793622">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Comic fable about the sedate Ransomes who reture from the opera to find that their flat is completely empty.  They are faced with the question of what to do without the things they've spent a lifetime collecting.  British humor.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Ransomes' lives never vary - day in, day out.  Mr.Ransome is a solicitor and a very exacting person, regarding his stereo system and Mozart.<br/>Mrs. Ransome follows her husband's lead and no thought of trying anything outside &quot;the lines&quot;. <br/>One evening, at the opera, the Ransomes...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22775276">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The Ransomes had been burgled. &quot;Robbed,&quot; Mrs. Ransome said. &quot;Burgled,&quot; Mr. Ransome corrected. Premises were burgled; persons were robbed. Mr. Ransome was a solicitor by profession and thought words mattered. Though &quot;burgled&quot; was the wrong word too. Burglars select; they pick; they remove one item and ignore others. There is a limit to what burglars can take: they seldom take easy chairs, for example, and even more seldom settees. These burglars did. They took everything.<br/><br/>This swift-moving comic fable will surprise you with its concealed depths. When the sedate Ransomes return from the opera to find their Notting Hill flat stripped absolutely bare&#8212;down to the toilet paper off the roll (a hard-to-find shade of forget-me-not blue)&#8212;they face a dilemma: Who are they without the things they've spent a lifetime accumulating? Suddenly the world is full of unlimited and frightening possibility. But just as they begin adjusting to this giddy freedom, a newfound interest in sex, and a lack of comfy chairs, a surreal reversal of events causes them to question their assumptions yet again. <br/><br/>The Ransomes' bafflement is the reader's delight. Alan Bennett's gentle but scathing wit, unerring ear for dialogue, and sense of the absurd make <strong>The Clothes They Stood Up In</strong> a memorable exploration of where in life true riches lie.<br/><br/>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am on an Alan Bennett roll.  He is hysterical...I highly recommend his stuff!]]></body>
    
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