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Cargando... Un paraíso inalcanzable (1985)por John Mortimer
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Al morir Simeon Simcox, el peculiar párroco socialista del pueblo de Rapstone Fanner, sus hijos descubren que ha dejado toda su fortuna al ambicioso diputado conservador local Leslie Titmuss. Los dos hijos de Simcox reaccionan de manera opuesta: Henry, famoso novelista e intelectual, y antiguo angry young man, impugnará el testamento alegando que su padre no estaba en sus cabales; en cambio, su hermano menor, Fred, un afable médico rural, decide investigar en el pasado de su padre y buscar una justificación a la inesperada decisión paterna.
John Mortimer, who is well known for his diverting memoir “Clinging to the Wreckage,” is the son of a barrister, whose blindness enhanced his performances at the bar. The son also trained for the bar but turned novelist, then playwright and scriptwriter; like many lawyers, he has a natural talent for the detective story. In his latest novel, “Paradise Postponed” (Viking; $17.95), the element of detection is doubled. There is no body in the library, but there is an inexplicable will. The real body is the state of English society and mceurs from 1945 to the rise of Thatcherism and the Falklands War... The reader is at first lost in a maze of flashbacks. A Victorian novelist would not have been so fluid; he would have moralized his way through past circumstance, building as he went. Mr. Mortimer has chosen the speedier, leapfrogging skills of the scriptwriter and the television camera. We are viewers rather than readers. In this respect, “Paradise Postponed” is like, say, “Dynasty,” a story that moves backward as it moves forward, but without the money and the fashion show. Throughout ''Paradise Postponed,'' Mr. Mortimer's wry authorial tone steers delicately between sentiment and satire. In his skillful hands, we seem to be viewing the world from a very great distance - far away enough to make even the tragedies slightly comic - while at the same time we are right inside the characters' heads. And Mr. Mortimer's prose is so easygoing, so companionable, that he appears to accomplish this act of literary ventriloquism without moving his lips. Pertenece a las seriesContenido enDistinciones
When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Henry, novelist and former 'angry young man' turned grumpy old reactionary, decides to fight the will and prove their father was insane. Younger brother Fred, a mild-mannered country doctor, takes a different approach, quietly digging in Simeon's past, only to uncover an entirely unexpected explanation for the legacy. An exquisitely drawn saga of ancient rivalries and class struggles, featuring a glorious cast of characters, Paradise Postponed is a delicious portrait of English country life by a master satirist. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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