- Hardcover: 360 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; Reprint edition (6 Jun 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333660145
- ISBN-13: 978-0333660140
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,661,610 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'A modern day Vanity Fair... brilliantly done' Mail on Sunday; 'With her customary understanding and compassion, Buchan nudges [Tess and Becky] towards the recognition of what really matters when the chips are down. A satisfyingly easy but never facile read' Daily Telegraph; 'She refreshes the parts other writers don't know about' Daily Mail"
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A satisfyingly easy but never facile read.
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This is a deliberate reworking of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In this version Becky Sharp (still called Becky) is a city whizz-kid of the eighties- clever, beautiful and amoral- while Amelia (now called Tess) falls in love with a man who marries her but doesn't love her. Elizabeth Buchan draws some clever parallels between the eighties and the Regency (when Vanity Fair was originally set)and this novel has the same sharpness and unsentimentality as Thackeray's masterpiece.
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Modern Re-telling of Vanity Fair
19 Feb 2003
Format:Audio Cassette
In the late-80s, Tess and Becky are negotiating the world of high finance and the City. When disaster hits amid rumours of incompetence, Tess's father, a Lloyd's Name, suffers terrible losses. Meanwhile, Tess and Becky are faced with hard choices, not least the one presented by biology: children. This is a deliberate reworking of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In this version Becky Sharp (still called Becky) is a city whizz-kid of the eighties- clever, beautiful and amoral- while Amelia (now called Tess) falls in love with a man who marries her but doesn't love her. Elizabeth Buchan draws some clever parallels between the eighties and the Regency (when Vanity Fair was originally set)and this novel has the same sharpness and unsentimentality as Thackeray's masterpiece.
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