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Well, I have to agree with Amber about the Dickensian tones to the story. It's perhaps more like a post-modern Dickens I guess with all the vulgarity associated with a story of 19th Century Victorian era prostitution.
I thought it was brilliant how Faber handled the Agnes character and her innocence of the most mundane womanly events, i.e. menustruation and how she truly believed it was a terrible illness that she suffered from and not a regular cycle of life and her continuing mental collapse a ...more
I thought it was brilliant how Faber handled the Agnes character and her innocence of the most mundane womanly events, i.e. menustruation and how she truly believed it was a terrible illness that she suffered from and not a regular cycle of life and her continuing mental collapse a ...more
I have to admit that I found the first 300 pages or so of this book to be tedious and it just seemed to lead nowhere. I stopped reading the book for a few months and contemplated not ever coming back to it but it irritates me a little when I don't finish a book so I decided to give it another go. The remainder of the book was where the story really started to evolve and I then couldn't get enough of Michel Faber's depiction of Victorian life. I really think the book probably should be rated 3 1/
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For as long as this book was, I was expecting it to be a lot better.
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