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A Game of Hide and Seek [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Taylor (Author), Elizabeth Jane Howard (Introduction)
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  • Hardcover: 306 pages
  • Publisher: Virago Press (2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1844085295
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844085293
  • Product Dimensions: 13.7 x 20.6 x 2.9 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 435,485 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A bitter-sweet story. 7 Nov 2001
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
The novel is a love story, and not a happy one, but it is also extremely funny. The main characters, Harriet and Vesey, conduct a love affair mainly in his absence over a period of perhaps fifteen years. In the meantime Harriet takes a job in a gown shop (yes, "gown," not "dress") and marries an older man, Charles, who knows a little about Vesey, just enough to feel constantly undermined by him. The part of the novel dealing with the shop is especially hilarious, with the antics of the other assistants.

Vesey, effete and ineffective, is yet somehow a powerful character who exerts his influence not only over Harriet and Charles, but over their daughter as well. In fact, the daughter is convinced that Vesey is her real father. He is perceived always as a malign influence, whereas the truth is that he never quite has the energy to achieve anything, not even adultery with Harriet.

The minor characters, like Charles' mother Julia, are excellent. Julia is a former actress and a great drama queen still - quite a nasty piece of work. At one point she makes a reference to the film "Brief Encounter," which is unlike any other you will come across. The former suffragette Caroline and her husband Hugo, who had spent 1914-18 as a Rupert Brooke replica, are also very funny. Caroline is alarmingly principled and is self-righteous; Hugo is resigned: "He knew she was a good wife, though a bore." The principles in this case revolve around a nut-rissole, Caroline being of course a vegetarian.

The novel's end is ambiguous, and I have never been able to decide "what happens."

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5.0 out of 5 stars forceful 18 Jun 2009
By F. M. Stockdale
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Unlike the reviewer above, I didn't find this powerful and unsettling novel particularly funny. It is however devastatingly truthful, with complex and entirely convincing characters. It sounds putting off to say that most are trapped in their own particular brand of failure and despair, and yet it is its truthfulness that makes this fine novel optimistic, in showing how the characters cope with their troubles and surmount or come to terms with them in different ways. A good read.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A Game of Hide and Seek by Elizabeth Taylor 30 Nov 2009
By Denise Mcsheehy
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Not one of her best in my opinion. Disappointing, because I have great admiration for Taylor's astute observation, her painterly descriptive prose, her sense of moral purpose linked to a subtle and profound 'reading' of the human condition. However, this novel is not as tightly written as, say, 'A Wreath of Roses'and does not really 'take off' until the last section where her ability to depict the ebb and flow of relationships is fully realised. Here Taylor's honesty and refusal to seek easy narrative solutions give the work a hardness, a soundness lacking in the earlier part of the novel.
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