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- Publisher: Virago UK 2002 (2002)
- ASIN: B003BCWPOS
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Twists and Turns That Make the Heart Patter,
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This review is from: Fingersmith (Paperback)
Set in the Victorian slums of London, and subsequently the English countryside, this is a tale of twists and turns that make the heart patter. I won't go into any details on the plot as I think it would be very hard not to give any spoilers. This is, simply put, a brilliant book. The story oozes with atmosphere. It is an incredibly Dickensian tale with characters that are eccentric and deliciously evil. It turns out I had already seen the BBC dramatization so I knew some of the secrets but still I found myself reeling in amazement with each twist and turn the author dares to throw at the reader. Sarah Waters most certainly is a gutsy and brilliant storyteller. I want to run out and read every book she's written. Most definitely and highly recommended!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Completely caught me off guard at how good a book it is,
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This review is from: Fingersmith (Hardcover)
I decided to give this book a read after it made a critics 'top 10' list. Thus I picked up the book blind, having no idea who the author was nor what the premise of the included. Having just finished the book I can honestly say I was not disappointed.Waters manages to capture the sights and sounds of Victorian England quite well. Details are richly rendered, and each character is developed such that the reader feels like they can almost reach out and touch them. Progressing through the book, the reader is left with a very different impression of what Victorian England might have looked like, as say compared to how Dickens's might have portrayed it. Waters also does a fantastic job of keeping the reader on edge. Plot turns and twists ensure that this is one book the reader will not want to put down. Anyone who is interested in books centered around Victorian England, and/or who like books where the unexpected is almost the expected, should definitely give this book a read.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A genuinely sensational contemporary "sensation novel",
By Jay Dickson (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fingersmith (Paperback)
Since John Fowles's THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMEN three decades ago many British novelists have tried to recapture the style and feel of the great pageturners from the novel's heyday, the Victorian era, often with mixed results. Sarah Waters, like Charles Palliser, has carved out a career for herself almost wholly in this subgenre, and succeeds even more brilliantly than Palliser. Her latest novel, FINGERSMITH, beautifully recaptures the can't-put-it-down excitement of her literary forerunner Wilkie Collins, and narrates the story of a group of thieves who engineer a cruel plot to commit an heiress to a madhouse with real aplomb and skill. But the novel is even better than that: it brings out into the open social and cultural concerns Collins or Dickens could not have spoken about quite so directly (particularly pornography and same-sex eroticism), and shows great insight into the metafictional issues involved in reworking this subgenre of the sensation novel. I recommend this extremely highly.
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