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Cargando... Possession (1969)por Celia Fremlin
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Clare Erskine thought it was a wonderful stroke of luck that her 19 year old daughter, Sarah, was engaged to marry an accountant. Sarah would live happily ever after and Clare pull ahead in the unspoken race that mothers run. But beneath the surface of suburban tranquillity, lies a story of a possessive mother and her twisted son. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Clare's husband Ralph reacts to the news of his daughter's engagement:
"I suppose the fellow hasn't a job or anything?" he inquired resignedly; and I rejoiced at being able to inform him that -- in marked contrast to Sarah's previous boyfriends -- Mervyn not only had a job, but a permanent job, in a firm of accountants. Not a firm of psychedelic accountants? inquired my husband unbelievingly. Not a financial rave-in? A fiscal freak-out? No, I assured him, glancing again down the untidy pages: it seemed to be an ordinary firm of real accountants. It seemed too good to be true; and together we pored over our daughter's letter, looking for the snag."
The book was published in 1969; hence the slang of the times!
The horror builds in this book, interspersed with some really funny scenes involving Clare's neighbour, Liz, once the undisputed leader of the Cat Race, who now lives with the horrific embarrassment of three hippie sons who move back into the family home, complete with all their gear, friends, girlfriends, girlfriends' children, etc. and expect good old Mum & Dad to house, feed and support them all. Some welcome comic relief in what is really quite a chilling book. ( )