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The Charmers
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The Charmers
408 pages
Published
1978
by Magna Print Books ;Distributed in North America by John Curley]
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I continue to be astonished by Gibbons. Maybe because I find her such a surprising mix of things. She's hilarious and sometimes makes me laugh out loud. And yet, though often her characters are comic figures, they're most always more than that. She's in sympathy with all of them.
One story she likes to tell is of a character (a dowdy antiheroine named Miss Smith in this novel) who finds her circumstances bettered. This is never the end of the story for Gibbons, but the beginning, and here we wat...more
One story she likes to tell is of a character (a dowdy antiheroine named Miss Smith in this novel) who finds her circumstances bettered. This is never the end of the story for Gibbons, but the beginning, and here we wat...more
This book didn't blow me away to the same degree as Cold Comfort Farm, but I quite enjoyed it. It reminded me a bit of Edith Wharton (whom I prefer) but also maybe with a touch of Katherine Mansfield, particularly the impact of that moment of insight ("That Day") into a world beyond the well-worn grooves of daily life (although Mansfield is a better writer, I hasten to add). It was also a nice easy read with lots of lovely characters.
read this two days ago - now can't recall any of it at all - does that say something about me or the book???
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Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English novelist, journalist, poet and short-story writer.
Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. A satire and parody of the pessimistic ruralism of Thomas Hardy, his followers and especially Precious Bain by Mary Webb -the "loam and lovechild" genre, as some called it, Cold Comfort Farm introduces a self-confident young woman,...more
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Her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1933. A satire and parody of the pessimistic ruralism of Thomas Hardy, his followers and especially Precious Bain by Mary Webb -the "loam and lovechild" genre, as some called it, Cold Comfort Farm introduces a self-confident young woman,...more
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