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A novel about the survival of a hunchback mute against appalling odds. Set in a dream world, it tells of Mag, the 16th daughter of an inn/brothel owner. Discarded and rejected because of her deformity, Mag is placed by fate in the hands of a succession of odd and dramatic characters.
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Set in Britain in a vague, feudal past, this first novel reaches toward a Dickensian sensibility but fails to achieve its ambitious goals. The heroine is a mute hunchback. Born into a depraved and indifferent world, she is destined to survive every cruelty that befalls her ("She can always submit: she can never surrender"). Filth, pestilence, sexual nastiness and vicious inhumanity pervade this charmless tale as Mag moves through several allegorical stages to her final destination, a curiously satisfying marriage to a sadistic and psychotic hangman. Sorel-Cameron's powerful writing makes the vileness all the more vivid, but his idiosyncratic way with words yields overlong sentences abounding with phrases like "fondling a great, black bottle that was as big as her head and from which she pulled mouthfuls . . . rolling it about her gums before swallowing loudly and gasping and belching as it bulged down her gullet. . . ." Where Patrick Suskind's Perfume succeeds with a somewhat similar premise, Sorel-Cameron's first effort is a painful example of talent misdirected.
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- PublisherP/B
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0349102171
- ISBN 13 9780349102177
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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8vo. 340pp. Good condition paperback. No creases at spine. Light shelf wear. Pages lightly tanned at edges. Includes a typed letter from the author, James Sorel-Cameron, to Clive Sinclair. ".I thought you deserved at least a copy of this, seeing as it has a bit of yours amongst the blurbs: for which, again, many thanks." The book is also inscribed "Clive- With gratitude, James Sorel-Cameron." ISBN: 0349102171 Pages: 340 Very good. Seller Inventory # C61086
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