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The Long View: Complete & Unabridged [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

by Elizabeth Jane Howard (Author), Mary Wimbush (Reader)

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Audio Cassette
Publisher: Chivers Audio Books (10 Feb 1997)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0745173861
ISBN-13: 978-0745173863

Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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The Long View is a portrait of the marriage of Antonia and Conrad Fleming. It offers a view of the relationship between two people.

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3.0 out of 5 stars The dissecting and displaying of thoughts and feelings., 26 Jul 2001

By	John Austin "austinjr@bigpond.net.au" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

Elizabeth Jane Howard's career as a novelist has been long and distinguished. Her autobiography is due to be published in 2002. "The Long View" is one of her early novels, dating from 1956.

The author adopts an unusual construction for her narrative. It might be called chronology in reverse. Instead of tracing the development of a relationship between husband and wife over a period of twenty-four years, Miss Howard begins in the present and reverts, stage by stage, to the time of the first meeting.

No novelist known to me is as skilled as Miss Howard at dissecting and displaying the myriad flickerings and quiverings of people's thought and emotions in dialogue with themselves and in interaction with each other. Admiration of this skill is more likely to command your attention in this book than are the appeals of suspense, plot development and setting.

Those who like novels to come to them in audio book format will appreciate the sympathetic, mellow-toned reading of the novel by English actor Mary Wimbush. Unabridged, it runs for 14 hours.

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5.0 out of 5 stars almost perfect, 12 Oct 2002

By	Andrew Brown (Saffron Walden, Essex England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Long View (Paperback)

This novel is simply the most subtle and complete dissection of romantic love, and its death in marriage, that one could ever hope to read. From the opening glimpse of the crushed heroine ("It was the sort of unoriginal thought expected of Mrs Fleming, and she duly sank to the occasion") to the final understanding of how she and her husband ended up there, it is almost perfect.

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3.0 out of 5 stars A historic analysis of relationships, 6 Jul 2001

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This book has as its central characters Antonia and Conrad. It moves around in time, showing how their relationship and its development has been determined by the relationships that each has had with others. This is not the best book by Elizabeth Jane Howard that I have read, but it is definitely worth reading. This is an intense study, more reflective than active.

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