Herself Surprised (New York Review Books)
by Joyce Cary
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Author: Joyce CaryIntroduction: Brad Leithauser
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1999-10-31
ISBN: 094032217X
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: NYRB Classics
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Book Review: Cary's triptych
Summary: 5 Stars
I have just reread Cary's three novels, Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth. It is amzing that books written during the second world war should be so secure in their tone about a vanishing England and its history. Cary uses his three entirely diffeent voices - tricky sensuous woman, nervy religious dirty old man, obsessed manipulative artist- better than anyone else i know uses the limitations of the first person to show what we do and don't know about each other. His descriptions of places and things are delicious. Also I shd like to say what beautiful books the New York Review paperbacks are to handle and read. Most people know The Horse's Mouth, and many know Herself Surprised . I'm not sure To Be A Pilgrim isn't the best and most surprising of the three- which is saying something.
Summary of Herself Surprised (New York Review Books)
Herself Surprised, the first volume of Joyce Cary's remarkable First Trilogy, introduces Sara Monday, a woman at once dissolute and devout, passionate and sly. With no regrets, Sara reviews her changing fortunes, remembering the drudgery of domestic servitude, the pleasures of playing the great lady in a small provincial town, and the splendors and miseries of life as the model, muse, and mistress of the painter Gulley Jimson.Women's Fiction Books
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