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Last Things (Strangers and brothers / C. P. Snow) (Hardcover)

by C.P. Snow (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Macmillan; First Edition edition (22 Oct 1970)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0333115090
  • ISBN-13: 978-0333115091
  • Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 15.2 x 4.3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 578,610 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The last in the Strangers and Brothers series has Sir Lewis Eliot's heart stop briefly during an operation.During recovery he passes judgement on his achievements and dreams.Concerns fall from him leaving only ironic tolerance.His son Charles takes up his father's burdens and like his father, he is involved in the struggles of class and wealth, but he challenges the Establishment, risking his future in political activities. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


About the Author

Charles Percy Snow (Baron Snow of Leicester) was educated as a chemist and physicist at the universities of Leicester and Cambridge. After scientific research he turned to administration and later held many important public posts. His novel sequence Strangers and Brothers spans the life of its narrator, Lewis Eliot, barrister - and took over 30 years to write.Snow describes the rarefied worlds of academia, Cambridge, the Jewish community and Westminster. He also wrote several critical works including a biography of Trollope. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Lavishly deep detailling, lacking in narrative drive, 27 Sep 2009
By Johnathan L. Fuller (Frankfurt/Main, Germany) - See all my reviews
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I read "Last Things" over the course of a two week holiday. I had, in fact, been meaning to read it for months beforehand.

One of the things I liked was the dramaticism of the (numerous) dinner parties, where awkward social situations are dryly described. I also liked the complexity of the relationships between the characters. Snow's abounding love of depth when describing anything (at all) was interesting and illuminating, but the book lacks general narrative movement as a result. The narrative does not profit proportionally from this Wagnerian-style detail and complexity, for example through the use of recurring ideas, themes or pathetic fallacies etc. In short, the detail is often disapointingly superfluous to the progression of the book as a whole. I disliked the total length of the novel, which, is at times simply long-winded. Why, for example, does Eliot on at least two occassions say words to the effect of, "I knew, and he/she knew that I knew that I felt ... etc. etc."? Either the depth of Snow's writing has done it's work and we KNOW how the characters are feeling, or he leaves the matter open. I don't need to be spoon-fed. I would have liked Eliot (the narrator) to be more humourous, more self-critical, and perhaps less faithful to the establishment. As a description of the society of the time, the book is terribly lop-sided, with the main focus on the Oxbridge academics, the super-rich and priveleged (embodied by Muriel). The numerous chances to gain social balance through Diana (token working class woman) are never taken.

In total, a little disappointing.
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3.0 out of 5 stars A slightly disappointing end to "Strangers and Brothers", 26 Jul 2001
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This review is from: Last Things (A strangers & brothers novel) (Paperback)
This is the last book in the 11-volume series comprising the "Strangers and Brothers" sequence, written in the form of the memoirs of the narrator, Lewis Eliot.

The best parts of this book are either those which follow the main thrust of the early plot - will Lewis Eliot, now Sir Lewis, accept a peerage and join the government? - and those where he revisits old haunts (i.e. Cambridge) and now-elderly friends and colleagues. Unfortunately, a excess of not-very-interesting subplots come to dominate, and what should have been a crisp 150-200 page ending of a fine series becomes rather shapeless 300 pages. But if you've read the earlier books, its still worth reading.

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