Great Granny Webster is Caroline Blackwood's masterpiece. Heiress to the Guinness fortune, Blackwood was celebrated as a great beauty and dazzling raconteur long before she made her name as a strikingly original writer. This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl. Great Granny Webster herself is a fabulous monster, the chilliest of matriarchs, presiding with steely self-regard over a landscape of ruined lives.
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Dark, grimly funny novella
2 décembre 2003
Par Cynthia S. Froning
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Great Granny Webster is a short, pointed look at three generations of eccentric, damaged women from the point of view of their descendant, a young girl. The portraits of the rigid, determinedly unhappy Great Granny Webster, her flighty, insane daughter, and the outwardly frivolous but suicidal granddaughter are classic black comedy, amusing and depressing together. The women dominate the story; the men are either dead (the narrator's father), absent (her brother), or ineffectual (her grandfather). The book is short, but the characters are affecting and vividly portrayed.
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"A behind-the-scenes look at a wacky aristocratic family"
31 août 2004
Par William T. Keith
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Blackwood was the heir to the Guinness beer fortune, and she was quite the bohemian rebelling against her wealthy family. Great Granny Webster is a partly autobiographical novel and a behind-the-scenes look at a great, wacky aristocratic family.
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Caroline Blackwood was brilliant
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I finally got around to this after reading CORRIGAN and I concluded that Caroline Blackwood was an absolutely brilliant writer.She is overshadowed by her life and died way too young but this sharp , concise novel is a gem.Great Granny Webster is a monster of a kind that many will not be able to relate to or even believe in .A rich hair shirt shrew who never met a pleasure she could deny or pervert.I do suspect that if you don't know the territory this may seem , unbelievable .It is all too true.Nothing can beat the description of Granny sitting around all day in discomfort waiting for a bad meal and non conversation and feeling , let's face it , quite proud of herself while she sneers at lesser mortals .Everything should be most proper !What's it about--Great Granny Webster--glorious Victorian Monster.They're gone now , more or less and unfortunately that's not entirely good.
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