Good behaviour

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Shortlisted for the Booker Prize

“I really wish I had written this book…A real work of craftsmanship, where the heroine is also the narrator, yet has no idea what is going on.” —Hilary Mantel

A biting, dark satire of 20th-century Irish society that is both “hilarious and sinister” (The New York Times)

Is it possible to kill with kindness? As Molly Keane’s Booker Prize–short-listed dark comedy suggests, not only can kindness be deadly, it just may be the best form of revenge. The novel opens as Aroon St. Charles prepares to serve her invalid mother a splendid luncheon—the silver gleams, the linens glow—of rabbit mousse, a dish her mother despises. In fact, a single whiff of the stuff is enough to knock the old lady dead. “All my life so far I have done everything for the best reasons and the most unselfish motives,” says Aroon soon after. In the pages that follow she will make her case, reminiscing about her youth among the hunting-and-fishing classes of Ireland,
a faded aristocracy dedicated to distraction even as their fortunes dwindle.

Keane’s brilliant sleight of hand is to allow her blinkered heroine to narrate her own development from neglected child, to ungainly debutante, to bitter spinster: Aroon understands nothing, yet she reveals all.

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shortlisted for the booker prize a wickedly funny satire of irish society after wwi featuring delicious and deleterious accounts of illicit sex and wild high jinks and a mother daughter duo who can scrap with the best of them vulture hilarious and sinister the new york times is Direct beschikbaar .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 mei 2021

Aantal pagina's: 320

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Molly Keane

Hoofdredacteur: Donna Coonan

Hoofduitgeverij: NYRB Classics

Originele titel: Good Behaviour

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 127 mm

Product hoogte: 17 mm

Product lengte: 202 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 127 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 17 mm

Verpakking lengte: 202 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 335 g

EAN: 9781681375298

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