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The Furies
Published in Paperback by Anchor (1994)
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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The throes of a talented, beautiful woman
Janet Hobhouse dipped into Greek mythology for her title. The furies hounded mortals who committed certain acts of impiety. Patricide was such an act. No, such homicide is absent from this novel, at least literally. What a reader finds is an astute mind gifted in words conducting a pitiless self-examination thinly dressed as fiction. A devotee of genre fiction may not be attracted to such a novel. No body falling out of a closet or floating in a pool. No shoot-out on a dusty western town street. No menacing or benign extra terrestrial slumming our planet. No auburn beauty breathless in the arms of a regency stud. We accompany the author's persona on a journey through a life, privy to the joys and griefs, the romances, the break-ups, the successes, the set-backs, a beautiful, talented women is subject to. The furies (three in number) serve as a metaphor for the regret, guilt, and sorrow Helen is unable to escape. A large portion of the narrative is cast in the meditative style of the essayist. Scenes are not frequent, although a crucial moment, the climax actually, is presented in what for the author must have been excruciating detail. Another metaphor, again borrowed from the ancient Greeks, is appropriate to describe this work. Ms. Hobhouse explores the twists and turns of her life as Thesus explored the labyrinth, searching for truth, however devastating, at the center of her being.

A dizzying experience
What I found most interesting about this book was how many details Janet Hobhouse packed into it, something that originally tricked me into thinking that it was autobiographical. It's not a book you want to sit down and read all at once, but you'll find it hard to put down if you're into aknowledging the harsh side of life.


Dancing In the Dark
Published in Paperback by Vintage Of Random House (01 January, 1984)
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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a waste of time
This tripe got glowing reviews from The New Yorker, The New York Times and Village Voice. Why did I waste my time reading such garbage?

Beautifully woven, ultimately hollow
Everyone suffers in this novel, and no one can really say why. I loved the format, and some of the secondary characters (Claudio, Kate, You-Bear) were very appealing, but the main character, Gabriella, was really clueless and shallow and refused to grow up, and somewhere in the middle of the book I lost all empathy with her and just wanted to smack her. Hobhouse is a wonderful writer and tells a beautiful story. I'd just like to care more about her characters.


The Bride Stripped Bare: The Artist and the Female Nude in the Twentieth Century
Published in Hardcover by Grove Press (1988)
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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Bride Stripped Bare: The Artist and the Nude in the Twentieth Century
Published in Hardcover by Jonathan Cape, Ltd. (1988)
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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Dancing in the Dark/91201
Published in Paperback by Knopf (1984)
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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Everybody who was anybody : a biography of Gertrude Stein
Published in Unknown Binding by Weidenfeld and Nicolson ()
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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Kay
Published in Hardcover by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc ()
Author: Hobhouse Janet
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Nellie Without Hugo
Published in Paperback by Anchor (15 January, 1993)
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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November
Published in Paperback by Anchor (1993)
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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November/91202 (Vintage Contemporaries)
Published in Paperback by Knopf (1986)
Author: Janet Hobhouse
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