- Hardcover: 245 pages
- Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd (6 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0413771466
- ISBN-13: 978-0413771469
- Product Dimensions: 18.6 x 12.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,815,687 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Elizabeth invests her hopes in a run-down terraced house - a place where dreams of a family could become reality. She persuades Richard to move in and take on the task of refurbishment. But every house has a history, and Richard uncovers mysterious and disturbing letters from the Man Before.
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After the Man Before is Mahar's second book and, like his first, Flying Lessons (1999), it's a subtle and accomplished piece of work. Here Mahar creates two vivid and compelling characters: Elizabeth, a social worker, and Richard, a psychologically troubled conceptual artist. While the former struggles to achieve a stable relationship with her partner, the latter strives to find coherence through his art. Richard has been given the job of refurbishing Elizabeth's Victorian terraced house and this act of reconstruction becomes an appropriate parallel for the changes taking place in both characters. With the house as its primary focus, the story addresses the meaning of social, psychological and aesthetic integration in a delicate, scrupulously managed prose. I recall reading it one stormy night in Lille, October 2002: in the morning trees were uprooted and roof-tiles littered the pavements, but I hadn't heard a thing. Sometimes an absorbing book can do what double-glazing can't. A novel of intelligence and finely judged understatement.
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