- Paperback: 340 pages
- Publisher: Solidus; First edition edition (1 Nov 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0954337743
- ISBN-13: 978-0954337742
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.1 x 2.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,717,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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An intelligent and talented woman trapped in a stagnant marriage with an also-ran in the city rat-race finds a catalyst for change in a chance meeting with an eminent portrait painter. Isabel accepts Christopher's offer of lessons and in exchange acts as his model for a series of paintings in a new style which prove to be the artist's last and most powerful works. Her own drawings are a revealing counterpoint and comment, and launch her new career as an illustrator. Jonathan meanwhile, dissatisfied with both his job and his marriage, loses the one and jeopardizes the other as he also experiences the excitement and guilt of an affair. This is a novel which explores the realities of married life, both its fragility and its endurance, and the contrasting pleasures of romance and undramatic everyday love. A Quiet Revolution was shortlisted for the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize in 1995. Cilla Lancelyn Green is the daughter of the author Roger Lancelyn Green, best known for his re-tellings of myths and legends for children
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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My friend's mum wrote this book and I haven't read it,
This review is from: A Quiet Revolution (Paperback)
As I suggest in the title of this review, I haven't actually read the book in question. However, I do not think that this should act as an impediment to my review as I am well practiced in the arts of fabrication and misinformation. Besides, as I also suggest in the well-chosen title to this review, it is my friend Anna's mother who has authored the book in question.Revelution is a tumultuous, yet thought-provoking, tale of family problems in which the author reveals a finely developed talent for social observation and the crafting of well-textured, emotionally layered characters. The dialogue is at times fast paced and witty; and at others it telling displays the author's talent for exploring the extremes of human emotion. The children so graphically, even disturbingly, portrayed strike the attentive reader as symbols of the decadence and decay of a Western society beset by a mixture of materialism and cultural bankruptcy. The "Anna" character's spiritual journey of growth is one in which we can all find inspiration, excitement and - for at least someone - a frightening disconcerting sense of deja vu. Although I haven't read this book, I feel that the cyclical and yet unilear quality of the structure compliments this allegory of modern Britain in an assured fashion that one rarely sees in the shortsightedly narrative-driven novels of the present cultural mileu. Cilla Green's book will change your life in a profound and irreversible sense - it changed mine - and I think that it can be said with confidence that it reveals an author at the top of her oeuvre. Her work dissects the modern British family with a surgical precision and a verisimilitude which is nonpareil. This book is the most important event in publishing since the last Harry Potter book. In fact, it's so good, I'm going to go and read it again - or rather for the first time.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review) 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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I loved this book!,
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This review is from: A Quiet Revolution (Paperback)
I read this novel in a couple of sessions - only broken by the necessity of sleep. It is a thoroughly enjoyable story about a young married woman with demanding small children. She longs for something else beyond domestic chores. She has a chance encounter with an artist who becomes infatuated with her, and she is drawn to this lonely older man. Will this destroy her family? I mustn't say - but all the characters go through changes and hold your interest as they do so. Beautifully written!
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