Salley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Where Three Roads Meet, a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. Her books touch on big philosophical themes of religion, art, creativity and death. · February's Title: Mr Golightly’s Holiday by Salley Vickers. SALLEY VICKERS’S first novel, the justly lauded Miss Garnet’s Angel, was about two worlds colliding — that of Julia Garnet, atheist and virgin, and that of the angel who opens up new horizons of meaning. The place of collision was Venice, a city that stands between East and West, land and water — just the place to discover duality. Many years ago Mr Golightly wrote a work of dramatic fiction which grew to be an international best-seller. But his reputation is on the decline and he finds himself out of touch with the modern world. He decides to take a holiday and comes to the ancient village of Great Calne, hoping to use the opportunity to bring his great work up to date. But he soon finds that events take over his plans and that the .
MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY Salley Vickers, Author. Farrar, Straus Giroux $24 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Miss Garnet's Angel; Dancing Backward. www.doorway.rutly's Holiday by Salley Vickers The new novel from the best-selling author of 'Miss Garnet's Angel' and 'Instances of the Number 3'. Holiday: a period in which a break is taken from work or studies for rest, travel, or recreation. Fiction readers with a sweet tooth and a high tolerance of Anglican whimsy are offered much beguilement in Sally Vickers' new novel Mr Golightly's www.doorway.ru in the Devon village of Great Calne, it records the events observed, and in part precipitated, by Mr Golightly, the author of a work once famous but now tending to be overlooked, who has elected to settle himself in this community for a.
The plot involves the various intrigues of the people and places in a village in rural Devon, and Mr Golightly's often unwitting and unwilling role in these. Not all of the characters are likeable, but I found them all quite credible. It's not my favourite Salley Vickers novel, but well worth a read. Salley Vickers is an English novelist whose works include the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet's Angel, Mr. Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Where Three Roads Meet, a retelling of the Oedipus myth to Sigmund Freud in the last months of his life. Her books touch on big philosophical themes of religion, art, creativity and death. Shelves: novels, england. Another book that had me bamboozled until the last few pages, Mr. Golightly’s Holiday by Salley Vickers, is a novel about a nondescript middle-aged writer who takes a “holiday” in a small English village, ostensibly to work on a re-write of a blockbuster he wrote years before.
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