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Howatch's outstanding gifts as a storyteller (Wheel of Fortune) are combined here with a new seriousness of theme; the result is a superior novel with bestselling potential. The "glittering images" of the title are those we present with pride to the world; in this case, the cherished images of charismatic, successful churchmen, elegant in their clerical robes, whose congregations are moved by their sermons. These are not the TV evangelists of the '80s, however, but clergymen of the 1930s, whose King has had to choose between his throne and marriage with a divorcee. A controversial speech on divorce reform in the House of Lords by the outspoken Bishop of Starbridge (a character based on Herbert Henson, Bishop of Hereford) provokes the Archbishop of Canterbury to dispatch his protege, Charles Ashworth, Doctor of Divinity, to look for any skeletons in the Bishop's closetor in his bedthat the gutter press could use to smear the Bishop and, by extension, the Church. Ashworth, a debonair widower, is immediately attracted to Lyle Christie, paid companion to Carrie Jardine, the Bishop's wife. Lyle first responds to, then flees from, Ashworth's admittedly forward embraces. When he discovers the reasons for her behavior he is hurled into a moral and spiritual crisis. There's no doubt that sex and religion can make exciting bedfellows; add mysteries within mysteries, scenes of charismatic spiritual healing and a deft creation of a middle-class milieu that disappeared with WW II, and you have an engrossing novel that challenges the reader's sense of the fine points of morality. Howatch succeeds in making the subtle and complex theological points of a spiritual transformation both credible and exciting in a narrative whose dramatic tension never abates. BOMC alternate.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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When brilliant young theologian Charles Ashworth is sent by his mentor the Archbishop of Canterbury to investigate the possibly scandalous conduct of Alex Jardine, the bishop who criticized his superior's position on Edward VII's marriage, he little expects to embark on an investigation of his own. His cathartic encounter with the hypnotically enigmatic Jardine and his unusual household forces Charles and the reader on an agonizing exploration of the psyche behind the seemingly flat character of a superficial clergyman. Howatch's psychoanalytical study may conclude more quickly and neatly than real life, but that does not detract from its brilliance or impact. Highly recommended. Cynthia Johnson Wheal ler, Cary Memorial Lib., Lexington, Mass.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 Interesting character study, Sep 12 2002
Par Martha E. Nelson (Watertown, Wisconsin) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Glittering Images (Mass Market Paperback)
This is an interesting mix of elements. Glittering Images starts out as if it is going to be a detective novel of sorts, with the main character as a well-meaning if somewhat naive amateur sleuth, forced into this role by an elderly mentor. However, the story quickly moves through this, and through a stage of being more like comedy of manners, to being a psychological study of the main character, as he loses his well-educated objectivity and has to confront himself and his personal demons. The male characters are many-layered and interesting, and theological arguments are nicely woven into the novel. I think the female characters are less perceptively done--I don't think Lyle is a sympathetic character, and I think Charles' choice to re-live part of his own personal legacy with her is fraught with future risks.

I haven't read any more frm this series yet, but I will come back to it at some point.

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4.0étoiles sur 5 Interesting character study, Sep 12 2002
Par Martha E. Nelson (Watertown, Wisconsin) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: Glittering Images (Mass Market Paperback)
This is an interesting mix of elements. Glittering Images starts out as if it is going to be a detective novel of sorts, with the main character as a well-meaning if somewhat naive amateur sleuth, forced into this role by an elderly mentor. However, the story quickly moves through this, and through a stage of being more like comedy of manners, to being a psychological study of the main character, as he loses his well-educated objectivity and has to confront himself and his personal demons. The male characters are many-layered and interesting, and theological arguments are nicely woven into the novel. I think the female characters are less perceptively done--I don't think Lyle is a sympathetic character, and I think Charles' choice to re-live part of his own personal legacy with her is fraught with future risks.

I haven't read any more frm this series yet, but I will come back to it at some point.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 In great Howatch tradition, Déc 4 2001
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This review is from: Glittering Images (Mass Market Paperback)
Just as Howatch's family sagas were written in a multi-person first-person narrator format, so was the Starbridge series, but this time each narrator gets a whole book instead of only a section of one.
Glittering Images is the first book in the series. I had already read all five of the family sagas before I had the courage to start on Starbridge; I was afraid that a whole series of books set in the Church of England could not help but be stuffy and priggish. But this of course is Susan Howatch, a master storyteller. And these books are considered by many to be an enormous development fromthe sagas.
In fact, I found the depth of character found in all the Starbridge even more impressive than in the sagas. She shows not only an extraordinarily deep understanding of the human condition, she also shows great compassion and warmth for all her characters so that even if they have weaknesses and make mistakes, we can nevertheless forgive and love them.
IN the first trilogy of books, set in the 1930's and 1940's, each of the three narrators is stripped down and turned inside out, so that the reader knows all there is to know about them.
In this first book we first meet Charles Ashworth, who will be a major player in the series. Charles has conservative leanings and a Middle Way churchmanship. As ever, Howatch succeeds in giving us an in-depth portrait of a very likeable and sincere man, and sets him in the middle of a story that simply pulls you through, unravelling secret after secret. A wonderful book, which made me immediately want to start on the next one in the series - Glamorous Powers!
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3.0étoiles sur 5 Perfect Title
Read this book (with lots of patience) if you are looking to understand your own 'glittering image.' We all seem to have one whether or not we are aware of it. Read more
Publié le Nov. 14 2001 par missannie1686

5.0étoiles sur 5 Intriguing characters and brilliant insight
In this and many of Susan Howatch's novels, the reader's challenge is to get past a plot which often crosses the boundaries into melodrama. Read more
Publié le Mars 24 2001 par Elizabeth G. Melillo

5.0étoiles sur 5 Anglican Church, A Psychotherapeutic Fix
How much you like this novel may depend on how much analysis or therapy appeals to you. It also may depend on how you like sordid, steamy, lacivious details. Read more
Publié le Déc 22 2000 par carol irvin

5.0étoiles sur 5 First of an excellent series of Church novels
1937: Charles Ashworth, young charming former Chaplain to Archbishop of Canterbury, Cosmo Lang, is asked to discreetly investigate the private life of the Bishop of Starbridge,... Read more
Publié le Aoû 3 2000 par Paul Burgin

5.0étoiles sur 5 Mixes doctrine and plot well
Intellectually satisfying treatment of Church doctrine along with outstanding plot and character development
Publié le Sep 2 1999

5.0étoiles sur 5 Loved this entire series
I chanced upon Susan Howatch's series on the Church of England after enjoying Castlemara. I quickly purchased all the books in the series and even sent a friend the first two... Read more
Publié le Oct. 8 1998

5.0étoiles sur 5 Enlightening
This book, and the series, are the best I've read in quite sometime. Susan successfully takes the reader behind the scenes of the church, and it's clergy. Read more
Publié le Avril 17 1998

5.0étoiles sur 5 The most moving and exciting book I've read as an adult!
Susan Howatch has lifted the shroud on the spiritual reality in everyone's life. This moving and engrossing novel draws the reader into several layers of mystery as what is taken... Read more
Publié le Oct. 2 1996

5.0étoiles sur 5 This novel exposes our tendency to play the imposter...
This is the first in a series of a six novel series. Having already read them all, I'm going back to start again. Read more
Publié le Juil 9 1996

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