Rose Macaulay
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| Title | : | The Towers of Trebizond |
| Author | : | Rose Macaulay |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 296 pages |
| Published | : | November 30th 2003 by NYRB Classics (first published 1956) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Travel. Classics. Humor. European Literature. British Literature. Historical. Historical Fiction. Literature. 20th Century |
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"'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass." So begins The Towers of Trebizond, the greatest novel by Rose Macaulay, one of the eccentric geniuses of English literature. In this fine and funny adventure set in the backlands of modern Turkey, a group of highly unusual travel companions makes its way from Istanbul to legendary Trebizond, encountering potion-dealing sorcerers, recalcitrant policemen, and Billy Graham on tour with a busload of Southern evangelists. But though the dominant note of the novel is humorous, its pages are shadowed by heartbreak as the narrator confronts the specters of ancient empires, religious turmoil, and painful memories of lost love.Present Books In Pursuance Of The Towers of Trebizond
| Original Title: | The Towers of Trebizond |
| ISBN: | 159017058X (ISBN13: 9781590170588) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Turkey |
| Literary Awards: | James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction (1956) |
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Ratings: 3.69 From 1317 Users | 237 ReviewsCrit About Books The Towers of Trebizond
The Towers of Trebizond doesnt seem much from faraway, faraway being 62 years ago. However, the clichés of British eccentricity does tower quite a lot.I admit you would probably find it more entertaining if you are more into the fine art of distinguishing between the branches of the Anglican tree and take a delight in lashing out at the Moslem community and the Billy-Grahamnists for not seeing the true light of the British god. A roman à clef, where crisis of faith and doubts about the moralGreat read. I was supposed to read this book for a literature class i took at UCLA last summer, but didn't quite get to it. Macaulay writes in that British we're-all-crazy-and-kooky-and-we-think-it's-normal-and don't-realize-it's-actually-hysterical kind of way. At some points I was laughing out loud (teaching the monkey how to drive Aunt Dot's car!). The characters' names alone were humorous(Father Chantry-Pigg). The end, however, is devastating, but made me like the book even more because I
oh to travel, isn't that just the thing, everyone's favorite hobby, to get away and have adventures, see life from different angles, take in history and view the panorama of the world all at the same time, you go some wheres and see some things, but unless you are traveling for pure thrill-seeking or just to find a new setting to drink and to flirt, you go to someplace and see those things and you are really seeing all the things before them, the history of a place, reading and thinking and
That's it. This book has usurped all my top ten and is now and will possibly forever be, my favorite book. In a book quirky, comic, and tragic, a woman travels through Turkey (by camel and jeep) with her adventurous zealous Aunt Dot who, enabled by the Anglican Missions society, has a vision of emancipating Turkish women from their Muslim enslavement by tempting them with the freedoms of the Modern West and the Anglican church (hats, tea parties, education etc.) They are joined by the
Truthfully, two 5 stars in one week!! THANK YOU, GR friends- and both from genre less visited.An absolute masterpiece. OMG, why is it so rare that this level of wit, erudite comparison and pure exuberance can be filtered into less than 300 (277)pages within the last 50 years? Well- no review or synopsis here of plot because others on this page have done it better. But this travel covers not just Turkey and other countries in the Mideast (early 1950's) but also discourse and depth of comparison
I found this via the American Book Review's list of best first lines (which seems to have gone AWOL, so I can't link to it). Who could resist this?: "'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass." The narrator, Laurie, goes to Turkey with her aunt Dot and Father Chantry-Pigg to try to establish an Anglican mission. It's as funny as you might expect, and the travel passages are excellent; I particularly liked Macaulay's gift for
oh to travel, isn't that just the thing, everyone's favorite hobby, to get away and have adventures, see life from different angles, take in history and view the panorama of the world all at the same time, you go some wheres and see some things, but unless you are traveling for pure thrill-seeking or just to find a new setting to drink and to flirt, you go to someplace and see those things and you are really seeing all the things before them, the history of a place, reading and thinking and
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