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- Publisher: St Martins Pr
- ISBN: 0312426879
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101474627
- Release Date: June 12, 2007
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #99531 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
- #13029 in Fiction & Literature (See Top 100 Fiction & Literature Bestsellers)
- #845 in Literary (See Top 100 Literary Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "An Experiment in Love" by Hilary Mantel and Harriet Walter to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "An Experiment in Love"Browse more products related to "Hilary Mantel and Harriet Walter"Review"The pleasures of the novel...are many. The women's-residence portions of 'An Experiment in Love' are as harshly delicious as those in 'The Group'; the childhood sections are immediate and vivid, funny and bleak, and the intricate love and love-hate relationships among the women, which, as the narrator says, have nothing to do with sex, are right on target. This is Carmel's story, but it is that of her generation as well: girls at the end of the 60's, caught between two sets of values, who had the pill but still ironed their boyfriend's shirts." "The story takes its energy from the barbed badinage that only in England could pass for friendship, and from deeper forms of deprivation and cruelty. In the end, you just wish that this brutal, bracing novel were longer." "Mantel is very good at evoking the black comedy of a subject which in other hands would be trite." "Mantel's account of Carmel's journey from Lancashire childhood to anorexic collapse is immaculate in its pace, its sinewy humor and vitality." "Her narratives often throw a hellish strobe-light over scenes of social comedy so that the novels flicker between satiric mockery and fables of human evil." AnnotationCarmel McBain is born to an Irish Catholic, working-class mother. But her mother wants more than a life of drudgery for Carmel. She enrolls Carmel at a local convent school, and persuades her to take entrance exams for London University. And while Carmel succeeds, her success means she must leave her family, her faith, her class, and her sense of place in the world behind her. If You Enjoy "An Experiment in Love (Paperback)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "An Experiment in Love (Paperback)" by Hilary Mantel (Author) and Har...There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Fiction & Literature Bestselling BooksExplore More Great Tower Sales & Specials
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