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Jan 27, 2008
Lord Beardsley
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I adore this novel. It's a Dickensian Lesbian novel with one of my personally favorite characters in literature. I've re-read this multiple times since, and could easily read it ten times more. I mean, what more can you ask out of a gripping read? Music halls, Victorian Drag Kings, devilish seductresses, transgender female-to-male male prostitution, lesbos, sexual underground dens of vice, picturesque sentimentality...it's got everything I could ask for. I could see how this wouldn't be for ever
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Nan is one of my favorite literary characters. Sarah Waters' plot twists are fantastic. You just know something is coming, but its not what you think it will be. The BBC mini-series is very good as well.
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Loved it. I couldn't put it down and bascially finished it in a day. Beautifully written and erotic : )
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I love how Sarah Waters has captured a late Victorian voice that I recognize from other novels actually written in the 1800s and bent that voice to remember/invent histories of marginalized people--people who might now identify as lesbians, as trans*, as sex workers, but who, in the world and parlance of the novel, are toms, uncles, boys, renters, gay girls.
Although the book is renowned for its portrayal of lesbians, what I found most intriguing are the ways the book renders gender and class. T ...more
Although the book is renowned for its portrayal of lesbians, what I found most intriguing are the ways the book renders gender and class. T ...more
I saw the miniseries of this years ago, and I have to say I like the book much, much better. I loved the richness of this book, and the depth of history about the lesbian, theatre and sex worker subcultures that existed in the late nineteenth century. While Nancy annoyed me in the adaptation, I connected with her and enjoyed her story in the book. Definitely worth my time.
Saw the BBC film first and read the book afterwards. Wasn't disappointed. This one is a Manager's Pick at Women and Children First and I understand why - excellent character development, unexpected twists and turns, and an ending that doesn't disappoint. Might be less interesting to you if you're hetero.
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The best lesbian novel ever written. Most of the genre is crap crap crappity crap crap, but this novel satisfies on every level. As my friend Laura said, "I laughed, I cried, I left a wet spot." So there you go...
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Jun 20, 2007
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