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| Title | : | Moon Tiger |
| Author | : | Penelope Lively |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 224 pages |
| Published | : | September 18th 1997 by Grove Press (first published 1987) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction |
Penelope Lively
Paperback | Pages: 224 pages Rating: 3.83 | 11667 Users | 991 Reviews
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The elderly Claudia Hampton, a best-selling author of popular history; lies alone in a London hospital bed. Memories of her life still glow in her fading consciousness, but she imagines writing a history of the world. Instead, Moon Tiger is her own history, the life of a strong, independent woman, with its often contentious relations with family and friends. At its center — forever frozen in time, the still point of her turning world — is the cruelly truncated affair with Tom, a British tank commander whom Claudia knew as a reporter in Egypt during World War II.Define Books As Moon Tiger
| Original Title: | Moon Tiger |
| ISBN: | 0802135331 (ISBN13: 9780802135339) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Claudia Hampton |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize (1987), Golden Man Booker Prize Nominee (2018) |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 11667 Users | 991 ReviewsWeigh Up About Books Moon Tiger
The narrator announces this is to be a history of the world. What she means, we soon learn, is that it will be a history of the world as experienced by her. We have all been exposed at certain times of our life to moments of history which mysteriously remain an essential part of who we are. Perhaps a childhood visit to Hampton Court, a passage in a school history book about Cleopatra, a documentary about an archaeologist hell-bent on finding the remains of Troy moments that are like portalsMoon Tiger by Penelope Lively. . . everything can be retrieved, . . . a lifetime is not linear but instant. . . . inside the head, everything happens at once. (68)That quote describes both the plot and structure of this stunning book.Claudia Hampton is 76 and dying, and as she dies, she tells the story of her worldall its failures, successes, loves (forbidden and lost), peoples, times, and points of view. She jumps from first person to third to different first persons, and it is not the least
I liked this when it wasn't posturing. But I felt it postured a lot. And largely fell short of its admirable ambitions. I generally felt Lively is probably a more conservative novelist at heart and this was her attempt at pushing back her boundaries, the literary equivalent of an habitually conventional woman suddenly dyeing her hair jet black and wearing stilettos to the supermarket. It's like the work of a writer who has just read and been shaken out of her comfort zone by Virginia Woolf.
I just finished this book. It was tremendous. I wish I had someone to talk with about it. It's a constant deficiency in my life that I read something that moves me and there is no one around with whom I can discuss it.I've only recently discovered Penelope Lively. I think I read a review of her book HOW IT ALL BEGAN in ArtForum. It was terrific and I decided I wanted to read the Man Booker winner, MOON TIGER. Even better. The subtly, the humor, the unique voice -- it is no surprise to me this
Moon Tiger is a masterfully crafted novel. Unfortunately, this does no good. It tells the story of a terminally ill woman, Claudia Hampton, on her deathbed who tries to summirize her life (I do intent to put things as simple as possible because Moon Tiger has already stolen the show with its complicated narrative). The novel thoroughly explores Claudia Hamptons life from multiple points of view switching between a first-person narrative and a third-person narrative (which, too, does no good
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively won the 1987 Man Booker Prize. At the time of its victory - although a unanimous verdict amongst the judges - critics rather looked down on the choice, describing it as the 'housewife's choice', or in the Guardian, 'nothing too challenging for the Harrods and Hatchards market'. The book world was rather in thrall at the time to the Golden Generation of writers featured in the Granta Best of Young British Novelists in 1983 (
This book positively shimmered. I thought about it for days afterward, and not for any specific reason apart from sheer awe at this author's skill. This novel is perhaps the best book I've read all year. Her economy of phrase, wit, and ability to apply a dream-like sheen to a whole compendium of characters makes this book a strange journey, much like an odd dream that you wake up wondering, "was that real?"
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