- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (28 Sep 1978)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140043640
- ISBN-13: 978-0140043648
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,155,735 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I am normally a very slow reader, but I managed this in just a couple of days.
As one reviewer points out this was written in the 60s, so therefore I think it's wrong to criticise it for it's political incorrectness - such a thing didn't exist then. One cannot place today's values on yesteryear's beliefs.
I grew up in the 60s and I honestly believe in these characters. Why is Jos a loser? He has a good job in a bank. George is a dance teacher. The only worthless character is George's flatmate Meredith who thinks she is so wonderful everyone else should think she is wonderful too, but she exists as part of the plot.
As for not telling us anything about the 60s - read a history book - this is a novel, written for entertainment purposes. And that's exactly what it does - entertain.
As one reviewer points out this was written in the 60s, so therefore I think it's wrong to criticise it for it's political incorrectness - such a thing didn't exist then. One cannot place today's values on yesteryear's beliefs.
I grew up in the 60s and I honestly believe in these characters. Why is Jos a loser? He has a good job in a bank. George is a dance teacher. The only worthless character is George's flatmate Meredith who thinks she is so wonderful everyone else should think she is wonderful too, but she exists as part of the plot.
As for not telling us anything about the 60s - read a history book - this is a novel, written for entertainment purposes. And that's exactly what it does - entertain.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Half a dozen unpleasantly, solipsisticly self-obsessed characters wander around doing nothing except being horrible to each other and to themselves. It doesn't tell you anything about them, about the sixties or about human nature. If I learnt anything from this it is that rich people get annoyed if they don't get what they want, but that actually they usually do, in fact, get what they want. Not, I am sure you will agree, the most revolutionary of philosophical insights.
I suppose that one must excuse the baby from the same criticism heaped on the other characters except of course when one stops and reflects reflects on just what she is inevitably going to be like as she comes of age in the eighties having grown up in that background.
I suppose that one must excuse the baby from the same criticism heaped on the other characters except of course when one stops and reflects reflects on just what she is inevitably going to be like as she comes of age in the eighties having grown up in that background.
Format:Paperback
I don't know why I never read it before, but I think I might have been disappointed, due to my own immaturity. However, reading it much later in life, I found it a good read, and certainly a reflective read (like all Margaret Forster's books).
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