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by Claire Messud (Author) "When Maria Poniatowski let herself into Mrs. Ellington's apartment at 7:55 a.m. precisely (she was always five minutes early; she timed her walk that way),..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Picador (22 Feb 2002)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330488147
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330488143
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Roth Scurr, The Times, February 2002

A careful and very beautiful meditation... Exquisitely crafted in themselves, these two novellas also complement each other... the work of a serious artist.

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This title contains two very different short stories. "A Simple Tale" is about an emigrant from the Ukraine, Maria Poniatowski, and her life in Toronto. And "The Hunters" concerns an American doing research one summer in London and the mysterious relationship which develops with a neighbour.
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When Maria Poniatowski let herself into Mrs. Ellington's apartment at 7:55 a.m. precisely (she was always five minutes early; she timed her walk that way), on the third Tuesday of August in 1993, and saw, at once, the trail of blood smeared along the wall from the front hall towards the bedroom, she knew that this was the end. Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding twin novellas - recommended, 21 Mar 2002
By A. Craig "Amanda Craig" (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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Having approached this book by a well-known critic with deepest suspicion, I'm now a complete convert. Readers, she's the real thing - someone who can transport you into somebody else's life and keep you there.
A Simple Life is obviously modelled on Flaubert's Un Coeur Simple (if you're into Eng. Lit., otherwise it doesn't matter). It begins like a thriller with Maria, a maid, discovering a trail of blood. Her employer isn't murdered, but increasingly incapable of looking after herself, and the interdependency of the two women is what's explored, alongside Maria's past life as a peasant in the Ukriane, a forced labourer for the Nazis and a Canadian immigrant. Her labours, sorrows, joys are evoked in the most beautiful prose, in a way that enlarges the spirit.
The second novella is also about a lonely woman but has a more Jamesian twist. An academic (sex unspecified) rents a flat in Kilburn for the summer and becomes drawn into the life of a downstairs neighbour. His/her snobbishness, irritability and assumptions make for fine comedy, which once again becomes something deeper when we learn that it is the prelude to a change of heart. What I particularly enjoyed was the way Messud allowed her narrator to be so obviously unpleasant and difficult at times. Too few authors take this risk.

This is probably the best work of fiction I've read so far this year. It won't please you unless you're prepared to rise to Messud's level of seriousness and wit, but if you do you're in for an unexpected pleasure. I've now ordered her other novels too.

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