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Monday, October 13, 2008

Mapp and Lucia


I just finished this British Novel "Mapp and Lucia". It's the story of two feuding social queens of a small town. They hate each other and do all sorts of crap to make each others lives miserable.

It's hilarious, in a very British sort of way.
Book Description:
The pleasure of Mapp and Lucia is summed up, surely, in Alice Roosevelt's bon mot. "If you have nothing good to say about anybody,"she is supposed to have said, "come and sit right by me." This sordid and unforgiving tale of unfulfilled bourgeois life in the English provinces portrays characters of quite monstrous selfishness and cruelty, devoted to humiliating each other in public, telling lies, and compensating in heartbreaking ways for the frustrations and narrowness of their lives. Lucia herself is monstrously selfish, snobbish, ruthless, wildly affected, prone to absurd fads and vain.
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