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Foolish Mortals (Paperback)

by Jennifer Johnston (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Headline Review (13 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755330536
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755330539
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 252,609 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Daily Mail, October 2007

Johnston picks her way through the complicated emotional minefield of her 15th novel with a light step. The writing is witty and subtly nuanced and the book is as much about the new Ireland- modern, forward looking, practical and tolerant- as about the individual characters' - --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.


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'A complex, wry domestic drama; a writer of the highest order'

(Sunday Telegraph )

'The writing is witty and subtly nuanced and the book is as much about the new Ireland - modern, forward-looking, practical and tolerant - as about the individual characters'

(Daily Mail )

'Johnston is one of the most revered Irish writers, and this, her fifteenth novel, makes us understand why. Her style is simple and colloquial...there are no literary pretensions: story and characters take priority...Foolish Mortals is essentially an uplifting read'

(Time Out - Book of the Week )
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2.0 out of 5 stars Foolish luvvies, 2 Sep 2009
By Build another bookcase (small city in Ireland) - See all my reviews
This book looked like chic lit but a friend recommended it to explore the narrative style. Initially it is first person from the viewpoint of Henry, the pivotal character. The narrator then alternates in and out of third person, mainly from the viewpoint of Stephanie, the ex-wife. There is a wealth of dialogue in the book which keeps the story moving. Now to the crunch. The main character Henry doesn't ring true. He has recently come out as gay after two marriages, which isn't totally impossible, just unlikely, but as a male reader Henry doesn't read to me like a man who would ever have been straight. The brother George uses improbable dialogue and is as camp as Butlins, although he's supposed to be straight. So the main characters are straight female and gay male, perhaps the author doesn't write straight male characters well?
It may just be my prejudice against arty luvvie types but I found much of the language in the book to be indigestible. The changing narrative viewpoint moves us away from the earlier intimacy with Henry and he is left flapping as a fey old cliché, with Stephanie resigned to marrying his queen of a brother, George. Their mother Tash is the best character and her death wraps up what otherwise is bland and improbable.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Foolish Mortals by Jennifer Johnston, 4 Feb 2009
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An easy read, both in style and vocabulary. There was just enough interest in the story for me to read the whole thing and not give up on it. However, unlike many other other books I have read, I found that I did not care about what was happening to the characters in the novel. Because Henry has amnesia, we only find out about part of his life.
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