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'Smut offers plenty of Bennett's trademark pleasures... consistently amusing and full of witty turns of phrase' --Sarah Churchwell, Guardian
'Amusingly peculiar... tender and comic... joyous anarchism... It is good, old-fashioned British humour with the lightest of subversive twists.' --Arifa Akbar, Independent
'Artfully entertaining... The stories have a dark, knowing shrewdness about erotic mischief, young and old' --Simon Schama, FT
'Unmitigated delight' --The Times
'Bennett's talent for the honed quip is securely in place' --Adam Lively, Sunday Times
'Alan Bennett continues to surprise and delight' --Sunday Telegraph
'You can always rely on Alan Bennett to capture the intricate nuances of English Life and his latest offering is no exception' --Good Housekeeping
`Nobody does a finer old gorgon than Alan Bennett ... Smut is a true collector's item ... sublimely funny' --Kate Saunders, The Times (Summer Reading)
`Terribly funny ... you will fall in with him as easily as with an old lover' --The Dubliner
'Small but perfectly formed ... will have you chortling dirtily' --The Lady
`Bennett delivers ... with great finesse' --New Yorker
'Amusingly peculiar... tender and comic... joyous anarchism... It is good, old-fashioned British humour with the lightest of subversive twists.' --Arifa Akbar, Independent
'Artfully entertaining... The stories have a dark, knowing shrewdness about erotic mischief, young and old' --Simon Schama, FT
'Unmitigated delight' --The Times
'Bennett's talent for the honed quip is securely in place' --Adam Lively, Sunday Times
'Alan Bennett continues to surprise and delight' --Sunday Telegraph
'You can always rely on Alan Bennett to capture the intricate nuances of English Life and his latest offering is no exception' --Good Housekeeping
`Nobody does a finer old gorgon than Alan Bennett ... Smut is a true collector's item ... sublimely funny' --Kate Saunders, The Times (Summer Reading)
`Terribly funny ... you will fall in with him as easily as with an old lover' --The Dubliner
'Small but perfectly formed ... will have you chortling dirtily' --The Lady
`Bennett delivers ... with great finesse' --New Yorker
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Unexpected tales from the master of short fiction
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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Quaint rather than smutty,
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This review is from: Smut : Two Unseemly Stories (Kindle Edition)
Readers used to Bennett's style should enjoy these two, rather short, stories. As usual, Bennett explores the oddities of peoples' lives and the strangeness of language. The first story is probably the better. The second is a bit 'clunky' and you get the feeling that Bennett rushed to finish it.As always, the author creates people you can care about. There is nothing gross or too explicit in these stories. As is often the case with Bennett, the characters are quaint rather than smutty. My only real reservation is how slim this volume is (or must be if I wasn't reading it on a Kindle.) In a full price book, we might reasonably expect at least one more story.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Laughter In The Darkness,
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This review is from: Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: 'The Greening of Mrs Donaldson': Two Unseemly Stories: 'The Greening of Mrs Donaldson' and 'The Shielding of Mrs Forbes' (Audio CD)
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In his dotage there can be little doubt that Alan Bennettis, indeed, a National Treasure! It is his incomparable capacity to dignify the small details of lives lived quietly behind net curtains; his dry, droll humour and perhaps above all his innate humanity which makes his work so enjoyable. These two stories, read by Mr Bennett, in this fine BBC Audiobook recording, produced by Gordon House, find him as his hilarious best. His capacity to combine the ordinary with the grotesque in these tales stands up well to best which he has written in a long career. His voice has become an old friend; a Maiden-Aunt of a voice whose pursed lips seem evermore tightly drawn into a tight disapproving bud, the better to deliver his unseemly observations! A voice overheard on the top deck of a bus or across the liver and sausages on a butcher's marble slab. The hidden and quietly improper voice of Little England. Mrs Donaldson, in 'The Greening Of Mrs Donaldson, is a marvellous invention. A widow who, to expand her horizons, takes on a job of role-playing pathological conditions to medical students (another kind of Naked Civil Servant' if you will!) I had not know that such an occupation existed until now but Mr Bennett brings the gory details to life in all their grisly scatological splendour! That her two lodgers also deliver more than a little spice into her lonely world should not be begrudged. Hilarity and pathos hold hands like familiar but uncomfortable bedfellows. 'The Shielding Of Mrs Forbes' is a wonderful confection too. A story about secrets that are not really very secret at all. The small horrors which lurk in the embers of a failed suburban marriage : lies, prejudice, pretension and hypocrisy hung out like washing, with no hope of drying, on a cold, grey, damp Northern morning. An unforgivingly vivid narrative. There is a bit of swearing here and there (which Mr Bennett manages to make sound more dirty than it might do in almost any other mouth!) so a little caution might be in order if you have young ones around and don't want to have to deal with embarrasing explanations. That said, it's a hoot! 'Smut' manages to be both seedy and quite precious in equal measure. Highly Recommended.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable satire; very little actual 'smut',
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This review is from: Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: 'The Greening of Mrs Donaldson': Two Unseemly Stories: 'The Greening of Mrs Donaldson' and 'The Shielding of Mrs Forbes' (Audio CD)
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The unabridged audio CDs were a delight to listen to.The book's theme isn't so much "smut" than it is the "unseemly," the pressures of decorum and social expectations. But it is also about the creative, even eccentric ways in which people use sex. It's not at all racy or salacious.
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