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This brilliant, brutally honest account of an exhausted mother is one of the finest novels this year
This brilliant, brutally honest account of an exhausted mother is one of the finest novels this year
Tell me, men: when were you last split open from the inside?” asks the narrator of Claire Kilroy’s brilliant, angry, arresting new novel. She wants to know why her husband — slumped in front of Blade Runner, beer in hand — is more moved by the film’s closing speech about man’s mortality than he ever is by his exhausted wife and distressed baby. How is it that he can see something “noble” and “epic” in this very male cinematic moment while failing to recognise her “ennobling truth”, that she risked death to give life to their child?
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This brilliant, brutally honest account of an exhausted mother is one of the finest novels this year
Maureen Guinness, the late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, was a vacuous snob whose idea of fun was to turn up at the houses of society hostesses wearing a comedy penis nose, a fart machine carefully hidden between her legs.
Maureen Guinness, the late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, was a vacuous snob whose idea of fun was to turn up at the houses of society hostesses wearing a comedy penis nose, a fart machine carefully hidden between her legs.
hmm it might be me but i think that's pretty funny! from Rachel Cooke's review in the Observer of Why Not Say What Happened? A book by Ivana Lowell about life inside the Guinness clan.
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Maureen Guinness, the late Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava, was a vacuous snob whose idea of fun was to turn up at the houses of society hostesses wearing a comedy penis nose, a fart machine carefully hidden between her legs.
De vijf beste (historische) Boekenweekgeschenken volgens Onno Blom
De vijf beste (historische) Boekenweekgeschenken volgens Onno Blom
Onno Blom selecteerde voor u de vijf beste Boekenweekgeschenken die zijn verschenen sinds 1932.
De enige eis: dat de tekst redelijkerwijs in 96 pagina’s kan worden afgedrukt (6 katernen van 16 pagina’s). De maat blijkt geen sinecure. Een novelle zit tussen roman en kort verhaal in, tussen tafellaken en servet.
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De vijf beste (historische) Boekenweekgeschenken volgens Onno Blom