Verbivoraciouspress
The Dear Deceit
Product Code:
9789810793838
ISBN13:
9789810793838
Condition:
New
$26.41
The Dear Deceit
$26.41
The third in Brooke-Rose's sequence of early realist novels, The Dear Deceit, first published in 1960, chronicles in reverse the misadventures of Alfred Northbrook Hayley, a scheming opportunist whose canards and manipulations are met with fatigue and irritation among his family, and whose romantic, financial, and religious struggles form in part a striking autobiographical portrait of Brooke-Rose's own father, Alfred Rose. By moving in reverse order from adulthood to childhood, the novel is structured as a form of genealogical investigation, subverting the conventional bildungsroman by presenting a sequence of sometimes disconnected episodes rather than a coherent lifestory. This first paperback edition contains an illuminating introduction by Joseph Andrew Darlington, who traces via archival material the parallels with Brooke-Rose's own family history, and her careful splicing of fiction and fact. The Dear Deceit is perhaps her most sombre work, if still sharp with satirical observation and witty, cutting dialogue.
| Author: Christine Brooke-Rose |
| Publisher: Verbivoraciouspress |
| Publication Date: 41988 |
| Number of Pages: 308 pages |
| Binding: Fiction |
| ISBN-10: 9810793839 |
| ISBN-13: 9789810793838 |
