- Hardcover: 352 pages
- Publisher: BEAUTIFUL BOOKS (2 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1905636415
- ISBN-13: 978-1905636419
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 846,912 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Following on from the success of To Travel Hopefully and Hellfire And Herring (both published by profile), this is the third volume in Rush's memoirs of growing up in St. Monan's, Fife. In this volume, Christopher reaches adolescence and discovers, beauty, art, Shakespeare...and women.
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In Hellfire and Herring, his previous book of childhood memories of growing up in the Fife fishing village of St Monans, Christopher Rush concentrated on his early life. In Sex Lies and Shakespeare he deals with his teenage years and secondary education between the mid 1950s and about 1963. He describes his experience of the awakenings - to the opposite gender, to sex, to love, to books - that adolescents endure.
As Rush is now in his mid 60s one must wonder at his ability to recall so much of his childhood in such detail. Although in his postscript and acknowledgements he accepts that his memory is fallible, that one of his former girlfiends does not share his recollection of a significant event and that he has made some changes to protect identities, etc., the overall impression is nonetheless of honesty and frankness. The sexual passages are unflinching in language and content. He is not afraid to admit to strange and sometimes appalling behaviour. Rush became a teacher in Edinburgh and his portraits of his own teachers range from the cold sadists to the life-inspiring.
Stylistically Rush is best when he is simple and direct. This book, like his others, is marred a little by the frequent impression of him straining for effect. He doesn't always bring it off.
Hellfire and Herring was a deeply moving book. SL&S made less of an impact on me. Perhaps because Rush's family (the loving mother, the tyranical drunken father)although still present slip into the background. Only gauche confused young Christopher is on centre stage and his personal appeal is limited. But if SL&S does not match the achievement of its predecessor that is understandable. It remains worthwhile. Anyone who read and enjoyed Hellfire and Herring will want to know what happened next. Hopefully Rush will produce further volumes dealing with his time at university and his teaching career.
As Rush is now in his mid 60s one must wonder at his ability to recall so much of his childhood in such detail. Although in his postscript and acknowledgements he accepts that his memory is fallible, that one of his former girlfiends does not share his recollection of a significant event and that he has made some changes to protect identities, etc., the overall impression is nonetheless of honesty and frankness. The sexual passages are unflinching in language and content. He is not afraid to admit to strange and sometimes appalling behaviour. Rush became a teacher in Edinburgh and his portraits of his own teachers range from the cold sadists to the life-inspiring.
Stylistically Rush is best when he is simple and direct. This book, like his others, is marred a little by the frequent impression of him straining for effect. He doesn't always bring it off.
Hellfire and Herring was a deeply moving book. SL&S made less of an impact on me. Perhaps because Rush's family (the loving mother, the tyranical drunken father)although still present slip into the background. Only gauche confused young Christopher is on centre stage and his personal appeal is limited. But if SL&S does not match the achievement of its predecessor that is understandable. It remains worthwhile. Anyone who read and enjoyed Hellfire and Herring will want to know what happened next. Hopefully Rush will produce further volumes dealing with his time at university and his teaching career.
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