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NEW NOVEL IS LESS THAN ALL RIGHT
2004
Overview
Like \"Accidents in the Home,\" this novel, set in England, burdens its heroines with the company of dull, self-satisfied men. Here, [Joyce]'s husband, Ray, is the anxious artist, and Zoe's Simon the aggrieved intellectual. And like \"Accidents,\" this book situates us in a world whose social and cultural fashions are carefully witnessed and smartly portrayed. But however astute [Tessa Hadley Holt]'s portrait of 1950s boarding schools and early 21st-century academe, however carefully she limns Simon's asceticism, Ray's vulnerable ego, [Zoe]'s naivete, and Pearl's rebelliousness, nothing ever quite comes to pass. Sure, people come of age, endure, mess up, and go bravely on. But if the effect of Hadley's earlier book was of immersing oneself in a moving, breathing episode, the effect here is of watching a giant mural scroll past, and of waiting, to no avail, for the busy timeline to pause at whatever moment might make the wait worthwhile.
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Boston Globe Media Partners, LLC
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