FAIRNESS (A CHRONICLE OF MODERN TWILIGHT) - Hardcover

Ferdinand Mount

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701169753 ISBN 13: 9780701169756

Publisher: Chatto and Windus, 2001

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From Library Journal:

Gus and Helen meet when both are serving as nannies to British summer people in Normandy. He's recovering from both asthma and asthma camp, she is tiny and fascinating. Both are followed through a wide sweep of the second half of the 20th century, beginning with Gus's sad affair with lonely Jane, mom to one of their charges. The characters occasionally mingle in various times and places, including Africa, and the natures of all involved are revealed in episodic, often witty ways. Overall, however, the author of Jem (And Sam) has produced a quirky novel that is only intermittently engaging and that often wanders in a vague, unsatisfying way. For larger fiction collections where British literature is popular. Ann Fisher, Radford P.L., VA
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

Following the well-received Jem (and Sam), Fairness is the fifth and final volume of British author Ferdinand Mount's Chronicle of Modern Twilight series though a familiarity with its predecessors is not required. At the center of the story, which spans the latter half of the 20th century, are the wistful, sexually inept Gus Cotton and the love of his life, Helen Hardress. She is a left-leaning blonde dynamo who gets involved in everything from the British miners' strike to a high-profile pedophile hunt. A big hit in England, this and other of Mount's novels have earned him comparisons to Evelyn Waugh.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Chatto and Windus
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0701169753
• ISBN 13: 9780701169756
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 318