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3.87 AVERAGE
3.87 AVERAGE
challenging
sad
slow-paced
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This book. I really liked it. It was very annoying at times and frustrating. But good. Best book I've read for class in a while.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide
Moderate: Death
Minor: Child death
In spite of the writing being a level above anything I usually read, and the insightful humanness of the characters, I knew after Book 2 that nothing good would come to Marian Yule, so I skipped to the end just to get it over with. It's so discouraging too, because she's an attractive AND educated, intelligent woman-- rarely seen in books at the turn of the 19th century. I get it, I get it. Money is hard & cold & it makes people hard & cold. It demeans everything of aesthetic or spiritual value, and the lack of it kills people who want higher things.
A tremendous novel, a profound dissection of a precarious moment in which the first whispers of modernism were perceptible under the earnest loquacity of that distinctively Dickensian blend of realism and melodrama.
From BBC Radio 4 Extra:
Harold Pinter narrates the tale of a group of Victorian writers' struggles with integrity and poverty. Stars Jonathan Firth.
Harold Pinter narrates the tale of a group of Victorian writers' struggles with integrity and poverty. Stars Jonathan Firth.
(Dutch review: https://recenseernogeenkeer.wordpress.com/2017/01/15/new-grub-street/)
For writers of any way, although it's not very uplifting to realise that things haven't changed in the last centuries.
For writers of any way, although it's not very uplifting to realise that things haven't changed in the last centuries.