Loving And Giving by Molly Keane
An even finer achievement than her earlier mordant masterpiece, GOOD BEHAVIOUR' Sunday TimesQuite the best book she has written * Daily Telegraph *
Keane's distinctive blend of elegant savagery and deep affection . . . its human relationships tortured like bonsai by good form, its open-hearted, sensual passion for horses, dogs and landscape * Evening Standard *
I admired many authors. But Molly, I loved -- Diana Athill
This novel is a rare treat * Irish Times *
A writer of genius * Wall Street Journal *
Molly Keane is astonishing ... LOVING AND GIVING is perhaps her richest work yet, an exquisitely written black comedy with a shock ending. The language is eloquent and original, the descriptions divine * GUARDIAN *
This novel is a rare treat * IRISH TIMES *
Quite the best book she has written * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Molly Keane (1904-1996) was an Irish novelist and playwright. She grew up at Ballyrankin in County Wexford and was educated at a boarding school in Bray, County Wicklow. She married Bobby Keane, one of a Waterford squirearchical family in 1938 and had two daughters.
She used her married name for her later novels, several of which (Good Behaviour, Time After Time) have been adapted for television. Between 1928 and 1956, she wrote eleven novels, and some of her earlier plays, under the pseudonym M. J. Farrell. Her husband died suddenly in 1946, and following the failure of a play she published nothing for twenty years. In 1981, Good Behaviour came out under her own name. The novel was warmly received and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781844083251 |
| ISBN 10 | 184408325X |
| Title | Loving And Giving |
| Author | Molly Keane |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2006-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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