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by Aldous Huxley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 464 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (1 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0099458195
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099458197
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 3.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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The dilettantes who frequent Lady Tantamount's society parties are determined to push forward the moral frontiers of the age. Marjorie has left her family to live with Walter; Walter is in love with the luscious but cold-hearted Lucy who devours every man in sight; the repulsive Spandrell deflowers young girls for the sake of entertainment and all the while everyone is engaged in dazzling and witty conversation. Often described as a Vanity Fair for the Twenties, Point Counter Point contains wickedly accurate portraits of D. H. Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself.

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'Huxley's style is at once dry and rich, intellectual and sensuous, scholarly and romantic. Point Counter Point is extremely funny with passages of rich and gorgeous farce.' Observer

'As a piece of satire, often brilliant, sometimes wise, Point Counter Point is a monstrous exposure of a society which confuses pleasure with happiness, sensation with sensibility, mood with opinion, opinion with conviction and self with God.' Guardian

Often described as a Vanity Fair for the Twenties, Point Counter Point contains wickedly accurate portraits of D.H.Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, Ottoline Morrell and Huxley himself. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Monumental egos and moral emptiness among the privileged classes, 3 May 2008
By Trevor Coote "Trevor Coote" (Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia) - See all my reviews
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When I was young the mantra of the resource-poor when talking about those more financially endowed was always `they have more money than sense'. That is certainly the case in Huxley's cynical sneer at the manners and mores of the upper-classes and intellectuals of the 1920s, of which he was one of course. Sacrificing plot for content and detailed character development, Point Counter Point is a complexly woven, satirical take on what was effectively England's `Jazz Age' where monumental egos and moral emptiness reign among the privileged classes. The Tantamount family, rich since the dissolution of the monasteries, throw regular parties for the intellectuals and dilettantes of the day, and indeed the atmosphere is rather like being led around and being invited to listen in to the conversations en route. However, much of the book revolves around an elaborate series of relationships and affairs. Among others, Lady Edward Tantamount is having an affair with the painter and womaniser John Bidlake, and man-eating Lucy Tantamount is pursued by Bidlake's son Walter. Walter is living with pregnant Marjorie Carling, who has left her family to be with him and who realises that she is already `old hat'. In the meantime, his sister Elinor is returning from India with her husband Philip Quarles, locked in a marriage that has lost all passion and meaning. The intellectuals are represented chiefly by Mark Rampion and Maurice Spandrell, men of wildly differing characters. The happily married Rampion is one of the few people in the book with a shred of integrity whereas Spandrell is an odious, pompous debaucher of young women. The pain of each unlikeable character is built upon brick by brick and it is difficult to feel sympathy for any of them, even when tragedy occurs, their self-induced agonies resulting from grasping selfishness and duplicity. Sexual shenanigans aside, Point Counter Point is at heart a book of ideas with the characters acting as mouthpieces for some fierce polemic on politics and religion, art, music and literature, physics and biology, sex and morality. Huxley betrays his own particular concern about the effects of industrialisation and rapid technological progress, overuse of the world's resources, and his fear of creeping Americanisation. Great writing, but a perhaps a little heavy going for much of today's readership.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious and quite relevant, 23 May 2009
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I found this book to be very humorous. The interaction between the characters is a work of genius.

One thing that could put people off readng this is the fact it is set in the 1920's. Dont let that put you off - the story itself is very relevant in this day and age and goes to show that some of the things taking place in our society now are not new.

The political message is very well balanced and in our high speed world, it may serve to give people reason to pause for thought.
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