Details Based On Books Fludd
| Title | : | Fludd |
| Author | : | Hilary Mantel |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 186 pages |
| Published | : | 2010 by Fourth Estate (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Religion. Mystery. Literary Fiction. European Literature. British Literature |
Hilary Mantel
Paperback | Pages: 186 pages Rating: 3.52 | 4051 Users | 323 Reviews
Description As Books Fludd
One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he?In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom.
No matter how copiously Father Angwin drinks while he confesses his broken faith, the level of the bottle does not drop.
Although Fludd does not appear to be eating, the food on his plate disappears.
Fludd becomes lover, gravedigger, and savior, transforming his dull office into a golden regency of decision, unashamed sensation, and unprecedented action.
Knitting together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous, Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit.
List Books Toward Fludd
| Original Title: | Fludd |
| ISBN: | 0007172893 (ISBN13: 9780007172894) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Fetherhoughton,1956(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1989), Cheltenham Prize for Literature (1990), Southern Arts Literature Prize (1990) |
Rating Based On Books Fludd
Ratings: 3.52 From 4051 Users | 323 ReviewsNotice Based On Books Fludd
A short novel of the first rank, funny and grotesque and, for me, oddly tender even at its most acerbic. I didn't see its criticisms--implicit or explicit--directed at Catholicism, specifically, so much as provincialism, narrowness of spirit, and poverty of imagination. In their place, Mantel gives us a world utterly compelling in its banality, tragic in its absurdity, and yet redeemed in its capacity to sustain wonder.I smiled when some characters received their comeuppance in this sweet little tale of a bishop and his modernizing push on a priest and his parishioners who don't want to be brought into the future, thank you very much. The language is a bit obtuse, weaving the story through hedgerows of density, so it was difficult to figure out what was going on, a hint about who Fludd really was on the flyleaf helped, although usually I hate spoilers.
I picked this one up to help while away the time while Hilary Mantel completes the Cromwell trilogy. This is quite a tricky little book; writing this review helped me understand it better, and to like it more, so I'm going up a star. I have a theory that this is primarily a story about compassion (as in "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people", Isa 40:1) - compassion on a grand scale, not merely for the individual characters specifically affected by Fludd's visit but also for the undifferentiated
I could not make head or tail of this book. Who Fludd was, why he appeared, why the shenanigans with the statues of the saints took place, and everything else between the covers was completely baffling to me. Was this a critique of Catholicism? Of parochialism? Of modernity? Of faith? No clue.
What a strange, lovely little book.
Not a word, not a word of love, Perhaps, she thought, he does not love in the ordinary way. God loves us, after all, He manifests it in cancer, cholera, Siamese twins. Not all forms of love are comprehensible, and some forms of love destroy what they touch.- Hilary Mantel, Fludd After devouring Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, I was ready for another Mantel. Fludd is a small, tight irreverant novel about God, belief, love, faith, innocence and knowledge. There were segments of this novel where
I'm reluctant to give just four stars to a winner of the Man Booker prize, but I found Fludd murky and not nearly as captivating as the allusion to its alchemist forebear led me to expect. This novel is all about a small Catholic parish in Northern England. The timeframe is indefinite (I think) but it feels like the 1950s. The first half of the book describes the mundane travails of Father Angwin and a mostly miserable and impoverished group of nuns. The father must contend with a garrulous
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