- Paperback: 310 pages
- Publisher: ISIS Publishing; Large Print edition edition (1 May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753162881
- ISBN-13: 978-0753162880
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Oliver is staying with his ex-wife for the summer and spends his days writing his autobiography in the laundry cupboard. As his efforts are continually interrupted, Constance his wife, has a very different interpretation of the past.
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Spending the summer with his ex-wife, his children, his ex-gardener (and ex-wife's new husband) was never going to be a good idea.
Perhaps Oliver should have expected the autobiography he was writing to be constantly sabotaged? Perhaps he should have guessed that he'd have scorn and derision poured upon him? But then Oliver was a philosopher, always happier with abstraction than reality, and the realities of his life have never been simple. Now they're about to come crashing down around him in the most unexpected and hilarious of ways.
'A brilliantly orchestrated slanging-match' Independent
'Anne Fine's black comedy bounces along its sprightly one-liners without flagging' Observer
'Shot through with wit, and full of effervescence and good humour' Financial Times
'It is said to take two to make a quarrel but the casus belli for Constance after sixteen years of marriage is her philosopher husband Oliver's serene unawareness of ever having given grounds for one...clever and entertaining...a direly witty achievement' Guardian
'Alive with brazen charm' Mail on Sunday --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Portrait of a marriage,
By Messalina of Zone 3 (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Taking the Devil's Advice (Paperback)
This book's clever central conceit is to take two flawed narrators (one more flawed than the other) and use them to give a slyly funny and unflinching (but somehow warm) portrait of a doomed marriage. Deceptively simple, effortlessly stylish, this book is easy to read and very absorbing.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Interesting,
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This review is from: Taking the Devil's Advice (Paperback)
It took me quite a while to get into this book, but it turned out to be quite an interesting read. The philosophy involved amused me, with Olivers theories. The plot of the life of Oliver was slightly irritating as he wasn't a character you could realate to and especially like, however the ending was good, if not a little sharp. The thing I liked most though was the element of philioshy, without that, i would have totally lost interest.
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