Dolly
by Anita Brookner
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Author: Anita BrooknerEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1995-01-15
ISBN: 0679745785
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: Those boring Brits!
Summary: 4 Stars
Brookner has an amazing style - she is able to draw you in to a suffocating world of stultifying decorum and actually make you (sort of) enjoy it. As far as I can tell there is no sex in the Brookner world - although there's an awful lot of attempted seductions. Here it's Dolly as the seductress and a pretty unattractive spectacle she is - selfish to the extreme and completely incapable of any sort of empathy. The book is written from the 18-yr old Jane's point of view, but she seems awfully mature for her age. With her brash youth one wishes that she could just tell Dolly precisely what she thinks of her instead of making perpetual excuses. The trip to Bournemouth is the last straw - Dolly uses Jane just to get a ticket, then drops her the moment they arrive! That is what makes the end so touching and surprising - one sees that Jane has a very big heart and an appreciation for those people who are her exact opposite (and how many of us can claim that virtue!). I heard this on audio in an absolutely brilliant reading by Fiona Shaw - her enunciation is superb and she really gets to the depth of each scene. Mrs B could not have asked for a better reader! Brookner really captures British middle class society in all its wooden stolidity!
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