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The Agony and the Egoby Clare BoylanISBN 014016975X (0-14-016975-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Agony and the Ego'Book summary:Looks at the techniques, methods and philosophies of some of the leading writers of modern fiction as revealed in essays by and interviews with the authors. The book takes a look at the creative powers and techniques of writers such as William Boyd, Mary Wesley, Fay Weldon and Hilary Mantel. [via]
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Black Babyby Clare BoylanISBN 0241122724 (0-241-12272-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Black Baby B Specialby Clare BoylanISBN 0349112029 (0-349-11202-9)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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The Collected Storiesby Clare BoylanISBN 0349113335 (0-349-11333-5)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Concerning Virgins: A Collection of Short Storiesby Clare BoylanISBN 0241128722 (0-241-12872-2)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Emma Brownby Charlotte Bronte, Clare BoylanISBN 0143034839 (0-14-303483-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Emma Brown'Book summary:Clare Boylan's expansion of Bronte's scrap of plot into Emma Brown is powerfully imagined and stylish, with enough melodramatic twists to keep the momentum going until the end. She is distinctly successful in recreating faithfully an idiom both familiar yet obsolete. Charlotte Bronte left a fragment of a novel at her death, subsequently published under the title Emma, concerning the placement by a rich father of a haughty and unresponsive daughter at a school for young ladies. As with Jane Austen's Sanditon or Dickens' Edwin Drood it has offered later writers the challenge of guessing a dead author's intentions.
Paradoxically, one of the opportunities that such an enterprise offers is the possibility of subverting the apparent direction of a plot-line, or undermining the perceived character of participants in the story and Clare Boylan takes extensive--perhaps too extensive--advantage of her freedom in this regard. A modern author's preoccupations are unlikely to be the same as those of a mid-Victorian and Boylan's story takes Charlotte Bronte's characters into darker milieu, and with a greater explicitness of social detail, than their creator is likely to have permitted herself. Rather like Charles Palliser did with Dickens in The Quincunx, Boylan seems to be trying to strip away the euphemism and restraint required of the great 19th-century novelists to show the reality of the world they mirrored. Students of Victorian social history will recognise elements drawn from Mayhew and WT Stead, among others: indeed Stead and the incident for which he is now best remembered--the purchase of a child--has clearly influenced a key character and plot element.
There is much of Dickens, and perhaps even more of Wilkie Collins, in the plotting, which survives a tendency to the schematic or mechanical to deliver a story that ranges widely through 19th-century England and society. This is a remarkable achievement in many ways. While clearly not the novel that Charlotte Bronte would have written, it is a successful resuscitation of the forms of high Victorian fiction as a vessel for 21st-century concerns. --Robin Davidson [via]
Emma Brownby Clare BoylanISBN 0316726117 (0-316-72611-7)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Holy Picturesby Clare BoylanISBN 0241109264 (0-241-10926-4)
Hardcover, Hamish Hamilton
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Home Ruleby Clare BoylanISBN 0241132088 (0-241-13208-8)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotelby Emma Donoghue, Clare Boylan , Maeve Binchy, Deirdre Purcell, Dermot Bolger, Anne Haverty, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne, Kate O'RiordanISBN 0156008661 (0-15-600866-1)
Softcover, Harvest Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel'Book summary:In this almost-all-girl reprise of the collaborative fiction Finbar's Hotel, Dermot Bolger skillfully weaves together eight chapters, each contributed by a different Irish writer, into a light, coherent, and highly readable novel about a culture in flux. The old Finbar's had been a dark, unchanging place, a "grade two" businessman's hotel in Dublin smelling of gravy and overcooked meat. The impressive new establishment, owned and renovated by the not-quite-respectable Dutch wife of a rock star, is a symbol of 21st-century Ireland--unquaint and anonymous, its chilly white surfaces are indistinguishable from those of a Hilton or a Marriott, despite the "Irish Bar" tucked into one corner of the lobby as a sop to tourists. Bolger is the only man among the writers included, and it is to his credit (or a handsome rebuttal to the old argument about "men's" and "women's" voices in fiction) that we can't tell his contribution from the others. None of the chapters lists its author--a brilliant if unsettling device--so that readers are left wondering whether the bestselling Maeve Binchy, for example, can be distinguished from Anne Haverty and Éilis Ní Dhuibhne, both of whom write poetry as well as prose. Other contributors are Kate O'Riordan, Deirdre Purcell, and Dublin natives Clare Boylan and Emma Donoghue.
Most of the female protagonists are returning to the Dublin of their youth after finding success elsewhere: a former maid comes back to meet the son she gave up for adoption; a faded movie starlet's luck takes a strangely positive turn; a nun looks for a man to sleep with. In "Da Da Da--Daa," an up-and-coming designer tries to corner the Dublin market for her soft, Celtic-inspired fashion line, and instead must endure a long encounter with her mentally ill father. Looking anxiously around the lobby as her room is being readied, Poppy realizes the risks she is taking just by showing up again in the city of her troubled childhood. And if she cannot make her mark as a designer in Dublin, what will success anywhere else mean? But at least for a moment, her assistant takes her mind off her own problems:
He returned her smile confidently, but he was mincing like a camp poodle, so she knew he was nervous. First time to Ireland for this second-generation Bronxer. Secretly, he'd expected to be lynched. So he swaggered, flaunting the homosexuality that had so repelled his Roscommon father. So nervous, he couldn't yet see that the fabled Ireland of his youth, the endless, monotonous, force-fed sentimentality of his parents, had no bearing on this new country. For all the world as though he couldn't see the blatant y.e.s. tattooed on the buttocks of the porter's young assistant.
Although the early chapters of Ladies' Night read more like short stories than the opening of a conventional novel, Bolger teases the reader with recurrent scenes and characters, so that the final stories bring satisfying conclusions to several mysteries--and not a few surprises. --Regina Marler [via]More editions of Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel:
Last Resortsby Clare BoylanISBN 0241113709 (0-241-11370-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Nail on the Headby Clare BoylanISBN 0140068236 (0-14-006823-6)
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Room for a Single Ladyby Clare BoylanISBN 0316639869 (0-316-63986-9)
Hardcover, Little, Brown and Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Room for a Single Lady'Book summary:To Eugene, girls are like money - they have to be saved. His daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood. But as their fortunes decline and the family are forced to take in lodgers, eccentric outsiders introduce the girls to new experiences and the liberal 1960s. [via]
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That Bad Woman: Short Storiesby Clare BoylanISBN 0316875147 (0-316-87514-7)
Hardcover, Little, Brown
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