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Taking the Devil's Advice (Paperback)

by Anne Fine (Author)

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Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Black Swan; New edition edition (1 Sep 1999)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0552998265
ISBN-13: 978-0552998260
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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Spending the summer with his ex-wife, his children, his ex-gardener (and ex-wife's new husband) was never going to be a good idea. Perhaps Oliver should have expected the autobiography he was writing would be constantly sabotaged? Perhaps he should have guessed that he'd have scorn and derision poured upon him? But then Oliver was a philosopher, always happier with abstraction than reality, and the realities of his life have never been simple - and they're just about to come crashing down around him in the most unexpected and hilarious of ways.

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Spending the summer with his ex-wife, his children, his ex-gardener (and ex-wife's new husband) was never going to be a good idea.

Perhaps Oliver should have expected the autobiography he was writing to be constantly sabotaged? Perhaps he should have guessed that he'd have scorn and derision poured upon him? But then Oliver was a philosopher, always happier with abstraction than reality, and the realities of his life have never been simple. Now they're about to come crashing down around him in the most unexpected and hilarious of ways.

'A brilliantly orchestrated slanging-match' Independent

'Anne Fine's black comedy bounces along its sprightly one-liners without flagging' Observer

'Shot through with wit, and full of effervescence and good humour' Financial Times

'It is said to take two to make a quarrel but the casus belli for Constance after sixteen years of marriage is her philosopher husband Oliver's serene unawareness of ever having given grounds for one...clever and entertaining...a direly witty achievement' Guardian

'Alive with brazen charm' Mail on Sunday

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3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting, 26 Nov 2001

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It took me quite a while to get into this book, but it turned out to be quite an interesting read. The philosophy involved amused me, with Olivers theories. The plot of the life of Oliver was slightly irritating as he wasn't a character you could realate to and especially like, however the ending was good, if not a little sharp. The thing I liked most though was the element of philioshy, without that, i would have totally lost interest.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Portrait of a marriage, 2 Sep 2008

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This book's clever central conceit is to take two flawed narrators (one more flawed than the other) and use them to give a slyly funny and unflinching (but somehow warm) portrait of a doomed marriage. Deceptively simple, effortlessly stylish, this book is easy to read and very absorbing.

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