HERSELF SURPRISED
by Joyce Cary
published
(first published 1941)
by M Joseph
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Hardcover, 216 pages
isbn
071810174X
(isbn13: 9780718101749)
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Read in October, 2008
Joyce Cary continues to be the author whose books give me the most pure pleasure. I find myself grinning a lot and exclaiming things aloud while I read his work. The first time I read this book, I didn't think I liked it very much because it contains the character of Gulley Jimson, so captivating in The Horse's Mouth, but he isn't the focus of Herself Surprised, and I thought I wanted him to be. But around my third or fourth reading of The Horse's Mouth I started to reali...more
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Read in August, 1972
I remember being surprised that a man could create such a completely female character as Sara Monday, protagonist of the first novel in Cary's First Trilogy. By turns sly, seductive, nurturing, unscrupulous, voluptuous, deceitful, willful, and vibrant, she's utterly believable. The interplay of the three central characters in the First Trilogy is the real payoff in reading Cary. In this novel, Sara's view of Gulley is often at odds with the view of the first-person Gulley of The Horse's Mouth....more
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So there's no plot. So what? Cary's got a lovely voice. The first trilogy is now my project for the fall.
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unforgettable, heartbreaking and hilarious. Sounds like a cover blurb, but accurate.
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Read in January, 1992
