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Sex and Other Changes (Hardcover)

by David Nobbs (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 372 pages
  • Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (7 Oct 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0434009075
  • ISBN-13: 978-0434009077
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,045,096 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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‘a highly readable and strangely affecting comedy of embarrassment, resentment, grief and love’


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This is the story of an 'ordinary' married couple who both decide to change sex, do so, get divorced, and end up falling in love again the other way round. As the couple come to terms with their new identities, the novel explores what it's like to be a man and a woman in a rapidly changing world and what indeed men and women are. In the spirit of David Nobbs' acclaimed novel Going Gently, Sex and Other Changes is a heartbreakingly funny, touching and compassionate study of 'gender' and what it really means...
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3.0 out of 5 stars Good but.........., 27 Jan 2005
By David Farrow "doa-dave" (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews
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I am a major David Nobbs fan. I loved Reginald Perrin. I laughed and cried at the wonderful Henry Pratt. But sadly I have to say this is not David Nobb's best work. Its not bad; it has some classic Nobbs parts to it but somewhere it just doesn't quite hit the spot. What's missing? Perhaps the main characters are a bit thin; perhaps the story is too predictable; perhaps its not sure whether it is a serious book trying to be funny or a funny book trying to be serious. Either way it doesn't quite get there.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Zeitgeist, like it or not., 6 Oct 2005
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I'm a Reggie fan, I loved Nobbs' autobiography. He has an uncanny knack for tapping into the current zeitgeist. I think this may also be true of 'Going Gently' and 'Sex and Other Changes'. Both books illustrate how today's culture emphasises the feminine and values the feminine. For me this soon becomes tedious, like too much candyfloss. There is no drive in his writing, no excitement, no thrill, no real danger or threat of the unexpected, no achievement and no climax. It poodles along in a mildly amusing fashion. The plot is thorough but flat, like his characters. In Sex and Other Changes he gives himself the opportunity to explore the devastating issues of paternity fraud. Instead he treats the subject like a mild case of chicken pox, reminding me rather of the way his autobiography treated his own rape as a young adolescent and his own decision not to have children.

Whether he means to be or not there is no doubt in my mind that Nobbs is 'with it', as we used to say in Reggie's day, so the book is worth reading as an illustration of where our culture is 'at'. Whether you like what you see is a matter for you to decide. Can't say as I do, but that's hardly Nobbs' fault.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Some story!, 7 Nov 2005
This review is from: Sex and Other Changes (Paperback)
It's sad, funny, awkward, emotional, silly, strange, makes you think a bit.
"Going Gently" is certainly my favourite Nobbs book but as with that and the Pratt books the characterisations are very neatly sketched. The land is soundly middle England with all the hang ups that that entails.
I felt for and could relate to almost all the characters and I shed a tear at the end - see what it does for you.
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