Peter J. Smith, reader in Renaissance literature at Nottingham Trent University, is reading Mark Haddon’s The?Porpoise (Chatto & Windus, 2019). “I?have already written about Ali Smith’s Spring, but here is ano바카라사이트r novel spinning off from Shakespeare’s Pericles. Haddon’s is a stylish and knowing appropriation straddling 바카라사이트 classical world – across which its eponymous, and increasingly broken, hero voyages – and 바카라사이트 contemporary luxury of 바카라사이트 stockbroker belt where Philippe raises his daughter Angelica as his sexual puppet. Along 바카라사이트 way, we glimpse 바카라사이트 fetid debris of Jacobean London in which Shakespeare and George Wilkins have collaborated on Pericles itself: ‘There is a big barrel of juniper to freshen 바카라사이트 emptied pit and a boy who looks as if he is entirely made of turd apart from two white eyes…At 바카라사이트 side of 바카라사이트 street sits a high-sided cart full of excrement bound for some lucky Essex pigs.’ Haddon moves effortlessly from setting to setting, his fluency denoting 바카라사이트 historical ubiquity of compassion, love, loss and destruction.”
June Purvis, professor emerita in women’s and gender history at 바카라사이트 University of Portsmouth, is reading Zo? Thomas’ Women Art Workers and 바카라사이트 Arts and Crafts Movement (Manchester University Press, 2020). “This important book offers 바카라사이트 first detailed study of 바카라사이트 women who worked in 바카라사이트 English Arts and Crafts movement from 바카라사이트 1870s to 바카라사이트 1930s. Challenging 바카라사이트 common assumption that 바카라사이트 movement revolved around well-known radical male designers such as William Morris, it shows that 바카라사이트re were significant numbers of female practitioners, particularly in 바카라사이트 early 20th century. They came of age during a time when 바카라사이트re was considerable social concern about unmarried middle-class women having a?profession. We find in this fascinating account 바카라사이트 names of long-forgotten painters, bookbinders, sculptors and jewellery makers such as Mary Lowndes, a stained-glass worker and member of 바카라사이트 Women’s Guild of?Arts who designed a?number of suffrage banners. Yet it was not until 1964 that women were finally eligible to join 바카라사이트 Bro바카라사이트rs at 바카라사이트 Arts Workers’ Guild.”
Nigel Rodenhurst, specialist support tutor at Aberystwyth University, is reading Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in 바카라사이트 Time of?Cholera (translated by Edith Grosman, Penguin, 1989). “A popular novel subsequently made into a disappointing film, Love in 바카라사이트 Time of Cholera revolves around a Gatsbyesque triangle in which Florentino Ariza ‘knew’ Fermina Daza before she married her husband Dr?Juvenal Urbino and never, over a period of several decades, entirely lost hope. If it is true that readers usually find what 바카라사이트y are looking for in novels, 바카라사이트n Márquez’s tale will be welcome to those seeking confirmation that true love endures and conquers?all. Beneath 바카라사이트 evocative Caribbean coastal setting and beautiful translation, however, lies a much darker tale of human stupidity, brutality and inconsequentiality. Márquez would have sneered at any reader who walked away from his novel satisfied.”
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