- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Fourth Estate; New Ed edition (3 July 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857026853
- ISBN-13: 978-1857026856
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 261,232 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Evening Standard, December 1996
A masterpiece...The greatest novelist under the age of fifty has now stepped onto the stage.
The Daily Mail, December 1996
It's like Dickens without the long-winded bits. It makes you laugh, it makes you blub..an excellent and entertaining read.
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A Vicious Circle by Amanda Craig,
By Matthew Hargreaves (Edinburgh UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Vicious Circle (Hardcover)
This is a jaundiced but funny and poignant look at a small circle of Oxbridge graduates in London who are cutting each others' throats on their way to the top of the media at the end of the last century. It is a hugely ambitious book, ranging from the world of mega rich media magnate Max de Monde (Robert Maxwell in disguise)to the run down housing estate lived in by single mum Grace. The heroine Mary thinks that if you can't beat em you just have to join em, and becomes the most savage book reviewer of them all, until she sees how destructive her pen can be. She is a likeable and believable character, and the whole story whips along at a cracking pace, by turns funny, excruciating, sad, wise, and, when it comes to bringing up baby, toe-curling. Altogether a Good Read.
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Wonderful novel,
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This review is from: A Vicious Circle (Paperback)
Amanda Craig's book is a tour-de-force: a panoramic, Dickensian swoop around 90's London. Vivid, funny, and passionate, Craig's fictional world seethes with humour and wonderful set pieces. Although primarily set in the bitchy world of literary criticism, Craig also brilliantly explores the way motherhood can turn your world upside down. A must- read for anyone who loves fiction, and a welcome introduction to Craig's best fictional creation: the slobby, lecherous critic Ivo Sponge, who makes a welcome return in Craig's latest, "Love in Idleness."
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This book is a delight to read -- and read again after reading Craig's earlier novels, Foreign Bodies and A Private Place, which are loosely linked to each other and this one. Compelling well-drawn characters, rich plots, and an authorial voice that strikes the perfect balance between harshness and light, satire and empathy.
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