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The Dark Flood Rises Margaret Drabble

The Dark Flood Rises By Margaret Drabble

The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble


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Summary

The new novel from literary great Margaret Drabble is by turns dark and joyous, hilarious and heartbreaking, and asks us what makes a good life, and a good death.

The Dark Flood Rises Summary

The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble

This bravura novel sees Margaret Drabble at her incisive best as she explores the end of life with her trademark humour, calmness and wisdom. Capturing the slowing-down of a brilliantly-realised cast of characters daily lives, The Dark Flood Rises is a deeply engaging and beautifully imagined novel.

The Dark Flood Rises Reviews

Shrewd and timely - the best novel I've read in ages. Ferociously well written, and hugely entertaining -- SARAH WATERS
Erudite, beautifully written, funny, tragic * * Daily Mail * *
Darkly witty and exhilarating * * The Times * *
With its echoes of Simone de Beauvoir and Samuel Beckett, this quiet meditation an old age seethes with apocalyptic intent . . . Brilliant * * Guardian * *
Masterly, poignant and uplifting * * Mail on Sunday * *
Drabble has pulled off a quietly revolutionary portrait of an age-group whose lives are just as urgent as anyone's but are rarely considered ***** * * Sunday Telegraph * *
Ageing and dying in style . . . Margaret Drabble's sharply drawn characters look back on lives lived and forwards to achieving a good death * * Observer * *
Uplifting . . . Profound . . . Unforgettable . . . At its heart is the enormous question, how do we know if we've had a good life? * * Sunday Telegraph * *
Now 77 and on her 19th novel, Drabble is skillful at creating brilliantly drawn, three-dimensional characters in this thought-provoking and witty read * * Sunday Post * *
Written with tremendous energy . . . Drabble has always been an observant chronicler of human life. Meditations on what makes a good death . . . are enthusiastically explored in a text that roves fluidly between past and present. Inquisitive and erudite * * Literary Review * *
A vein of black humour pulses . . . as entertaining as a conversation with a dear friend * * Daily Mail * *
Heartbreaking and hilarious * * Sunday Independent * *
Witty and intelligent . . . brimming with relevance * * Independent * *
A heartfelt rumination on the process of ageing and inevitability of death * * The List * *
A significant achievement, admirable and truthful * * New Statesman * *
A thought-provoking, witty and surprisingly acerbic read * * The Herald * *
Sharp observation and pessimistic pondering . . .There is a gloomy, undeniable truthfulness to this novel * * Daily Express * *
Drabble's brilliance . . . builds up a sense of wide horizons that one has never seen in quite the same way before * * The Times * *
Her distinctive narrative voice and soaring prose remain electrifying * * Spectator * *

About Margaret Drabble

Dame Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield in 1939 and was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge. She is the author of eighteen novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Peppered Moth, The Red Queen, The Sea Lady and most recently, the highly acclaimed The Pure Gold Baby. She has also written biographies, screenplays and was the editor of the Oxford Companion to English Literature. She was appointed CBE in 1980, and made DBE in the 2008 Honours list. She was also awarded the 2011 Golden PEN Award for a Lifetime's Distinguished Service to Literature. She is married to the biographer Michael Holroyd.

Additional information

GOR008658864
9781782118312
1782118314
The Dark Flood Rises by Margaret Drabble
Used - Like New
Paperback
Canongate Books
20161103
336
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