Chen is adept at describing physical violence this wrist-breaking episode prefigures the breathless battle scenes to come. As any chronicler of Joan of Arc must be, Ms.
Chen’s vision of Joan drives this historical novel.
Chen retrieves the worn fragments of Joan of Arc’s story and assembles them into a narrative that’s eerie, austere and just this side of plausible.To do so is no small feat. As Nellie Coker’s girls might say: If you are looking to have fun, just relax and go with it, and you will. not interested in psychological depth or nuance instead, it sets out to evoke - with gusto and precision - a lost Roaring ’20s London that, perhaps, never was. There is something ornately theatrical about this novel and the multitudinous character \'types\' that populate it. A reader could become as punch drunk on Atkinson’s complex, intersecting plotlines as Nellie’s customers do on her high-octane \'Turk’s Blood\' cocktails, but the pleasure is worth the mental hangover. how else to describe the masterful way Atkinson not only musters up a city-full of characters but also slowly and smoothly binds them together through coincidence and hidden relationships?.
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A sprawling and sparkling tale set in London in 1926, Atkinson’s latest is overrun with flappers, gangsters, shilling-a-dance girls, disillusioned veterans of the Great War, crooked coppers, a serial killer, absinthe cocktails, teenage runaways, snazzy roadsters and a bevy of Bright Young Things. Rave The Washington Post If Dickens had lived to write about the Jazz Age, he would have produced a novel much like Kate Atkinson’s Shrines of Gaiety.
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