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'Gripping, intelligent and highly enjoyable'
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'Conrad Williams writes like a dream ... 'Exciting reading ... this is a supremely intelligent and intense novel' PUBLISHING NEWS 'An assured literary debut' THE BOOKSELLER
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is amazing. I've never read a modern novel that so vividly evokes the world of Henry James in its subtle dissection of the ways in which we deceive ourselves and other people. With its Italian setting, it's like a mixture of The Wings of the Dove and The Aspern Papers. I am really looking forward to other works by this novelist.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Despite being billed as John Fowles meets Patricia Highsmith, there are strong overtones of Henry James's The Aspern Papers in this thoroughly entertaining tale of the clash between the greed of the film world and high literary sensibility. Set on the seductive Amalfi coast, it concerns a failing TV documentary maker who goes out to try and persuade a grand old man of literature to give him a rare interview. Instead, he becomes his secretary,caught up in a web of lies, farce and passionate intrigue. Though far too idealistic about the nature of novelists ("the highest voacation"), this is an impressive and accomplished debut which will bring pleasure to many.
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Boring
I thought this was far too long for the content of the book; reminiscent of Iris Murdoch in the questions it was seeking to address, but without the pace of her better efforts.
Published on 25 July 2007 by Gordon
Great debut novel by Conrad Williams
'Sex and Genius' is a pageturner, a literary thriller set "under the mountians of the Sorrentine Peninusular" that concerns the relationship between a failing TV documentary... Read more
Published on 1 April 2003 by M. Roberts
A disappointing debut
Unfortunately I found this debut novel to be a turgid read,with the leading characters being stereo-typical:the expat famous author,the down and out documentary maker,the sexy... Read more
Published on 15 Dec 2002
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