- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown; Film tie-in edition edition (Aug 7 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1844085694
- ISBN-13: 978-1844085699
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,143,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all Anne Tyler One of the most underrated novelists of the twentieth century Antonia Fraser I envy those readers who are coming to her work for the first time. Theirs will be an unexpected pleasure Paul Bailey Her stories remain with one, indelibly, as though they had been some turning point in one's own experience Elizabeth Bowen
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"Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined to become a feted authoress, owner of great riches and of Paradise House . . .
After reading The Lady Irania, publishers Brace and Gilchrist are certain the novel will be a success, in spite of - and perhaps because of - its overblown style. But they are curious as to who could have written such a book: 'Some old lady, romanticising behind lace-curtains' . . . 'Angelica Deverell is too good a name to be true . . . she might be an old man. It would be an amusing variation. You are expecting to meet Mary Anne Evans and in Walks George Eliot twirling his moustache.' So nothing can prepare them for the pale young woman who sits before them, with not a seed of irony or a grain of humour in her soul."
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4.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A novel with a considerable cult following, Dec 28 2004
By Jay Dickson - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Angel (Paperback)
The novel's heroine is described within as an exotic bloom from a cactus plant: the novel ANGEL itself might be described the same way. Its title heroine grows up spoiled and adored by her shopowning mother and mother's sister; indifferent to their ideas for her future (or indeed to just about anything else), Angel discovers her gift for fantastic fictions translates beautifully into the publishing world, where she becomes a bestselling author of contempibly popular potboilers. Angel accordingly re-invents herself as a glamorous author figure of the Elinor Glyn school, and we follow her through her successes, marriage, eventual popular neglect, and poverty.ANGEL is a cult favorite among many British novelists, including Hilary Mantel, but is only really transcendent when it allows Angel to strive (at the beginning and the end of her career) against difficult odds. The scene, for example, where she tells off her aunt for planning to make her a ladies' maid is enormously funny and satisfying. But when Angel is rich and successful Taylor seems too invested in scoring points of of her heroine, as if she, too, feared what Angel might do if not kept in her place.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
I loved this book!, Mar 16 2007
By Arts Girl "Francophile" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Angel (Paperback)
I loved this book when I read it a number of years ago It was my favorite of all of Elizabeth Taylor's novels. A film adaptation in English by french director, Francois Ozon ("8 Femmes")is coming out, but you must read the book first. I plan to read it again before I see the film.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
What a character, Nov 8 2010
By amreader "amreader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Angel (Paperback)
This is a delicious book. Elizabeth Taylor has created an unforgettable character in Angelica, the unlikely best-selling author with a hilarious lack of self-awareness. It's a quick read -- Ms. Taylor writes like an Angel. You will laugh out loud reading this novel.
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