The Chimney Sweeper's Boy
A Suspense, British Literature, Fiction book. Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they...
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- Pages: 440 pages
- ISBN: 9780141035109 / 141035102
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Our children, when young, are part of ourselves. When they grow up they are just other people. Barbara Vine, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy // Our children when young are a part of ourselves, but when they grow up, they are just other people. A PAPER LANDSCAPE Barbara Vine, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy // Insensitive people are powerful and the thoroughly thick-skinned are the most powerful. They make the best tyrants. Barbara Vine, The Chimney Sweeper's Boy //
This is Ruth Rendell, writing as Barbara Vine, at her best, a psychologically twisted tale of deceit and obsession. A famous British novelist dies, leaving his two daughters bereft and his wife relieved (for reasons that will become clear as the book progresses). His publisher asks one daughter to write a memoir of her father, and therein... I enjoyed this book for the most part, but the characters were utterly unlikable for me. Gerald's daughters Sarah and Hope (especially Hope) were pretentious, spoiled little girls who were nearly unbearable to listen to. I liked their mother Ursula quite a bit better, but I was still greatly bothered by how passively she endured Gerald's... I was pleasantly surprised by this. The story moved along nicely, there were touches of literary prose, the plot interesting (but predictable in the end).A famous author dies. One of his two beautiful and much loved (by her father) daughter starts to write a biography. The man they thought was their father had a mysterious past, who...
