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- Publisher: London Cape 1998 (1998)
- ASIN: B002MXOB1M
Understanding Of Jenner Ransfield
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Heart breakingly beautiful
6 Feb 2004
Format:Paperback
I wasnt sure I would like this book at first.
It isnt what it seems.
It has something for everyone, sex, activism, art.
The ending broke my heart. I actually cried. I had a hard time getting over the way the story ended.
A small warning... this book may be upsetting to those with sexual abuse issues.
It isnt what it seems.
It has something for everyone, sex, activism, art.
The ending broke my heart. I actually cried. I had a hard time getting over the way the story ended.
A small warning... this book may be upsetting to those with sexual abuse issues.
A rollicking, blustery feminist tract
16 Oct 2002
Format:Paperback
This begins like a ham-fisted parody of a conventional romance novel - and it's probably intended to, given that it quickly escalates into something more ambitious, more political, and ultimately more interesting. When Theodora Potts, Australian veterinary scientist, goes to England to complete some research with renowned geneticist and notorious sexual predator Jenner Ransfield, she becomes embroiled with the violently verbose Jenner and his uniquely dysfunctional family: wife Elspeth, devoted homemaker and frustrated mariner; daughter May Margaret, feminist sculptor; and son Robin, web evangelist. There's also Fergal, a sexually abstemious environmentalist whose particular form of protest is to hang naked from trees. Imogen de la Bere uses this unique configuration of characters to explore many issues, but chiefly male-female relations in a post-feminist age. It's a wild, chaotic ride, but not an uninteresting one. And beneath the rollicking bluster of it all, there are some quiet moments of real perceptiveness in de la Bere's prose - she handles flashbacks particularly well, subtly revealing the emotional backstories which make her characters do the things they do. In these passages, she shows a style and a sensitivity she'd do well to develop. If she set aside the desire to shock and amuse, I'm sure a truly great novel would be within her reach. (One criticism: Very lazy substitution of New Zealand for Australian vernacular: we wear "jumpers" or "sweaters", not "jerseys"; and a bloke might play AFL for his "shire" or "region" or even his "county", but never for his "province".)
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