Love is strange /
Connolly, Joseph, 1950-
Love is strange / Joseph Connolly. - London : Faber and Faber, 2005. - 495 p. ; 24 cm
Love is Strange is a bold and brilliant depiction of a family and a country caught up in a moral decline.
Clifford is an eight-year-old short-trousered schoolboy who yearns to be an adult; Annette, his troubled elder sister, is on the cusp of adolescence and coping with a convent education. Their mother Gillian, an archetypal fifties housewife, is devoted to Clifford until life and events propel her elsewhere. Her husband Arthur is dictatorial and aloof, and in time his inner turmoils are to result in swift and devastating consequences for the family.
Clifford and Anentte are spun into the 1960s in wholly surprising ways and in places as disparate as Swinging London's Carnaby Street and the hell of a punitive convent in rural Ireland.
Rich in cultural detail of Britian throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Joseph Connolly's Love is Strange is a beautifully written and quite unforgettable novel of family life framed by a darkly English humour. - Book cover.
0571227082 : (Pbk.) £12.99
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Love is strange / Joseph Connolly. - London : Faber and Faber, 2005. - 495 p. ; 24 cm
Love is Strange is a bold and brilliant depiction of a family and a country caught up in a moral decline.
Clifford is an eight-year-old short-trousered schoolboy who yearns to be an adult; Annette, his troubled elder sister, is on the cusp of adolescence and coping with a convent education. Their mother Gillian, an archetypal fifties housewife, is devoted to Clifford until life and events propel her elsewhere. Her husband Arthur is dictatorial and aloof, and in time his inner turmoils are to result in swift and devastating consequences for the family.
Clifford and Anentte are spun into the 1960s in wholly surprising ways and in places as disparate as Swinging London's Carnaby Street and the hell of a punitive convent in rural Ireland.
Rich in cultural detail of Britian throughout the second half of the twentieth century, Joseph Connolly's Love is Strange is a beautifully written and quite unforgettable novel of family life framed by a darkly English humour. - Book cover.
0571227082 : (Pbk.) £12.99
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