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Chargement... Uncle Paul (original 1959; édition 2017)par Celia Fremlin (Auteur)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. When Meg and Isabel were still children, their half-sister, Mildred, married a handsome, charming man whom the girls called Uncle Paul. Paul Hartman turned out to be a bigamist. He had married a wealthy woman and tried to murder her, but fled the scene before verifying that she was actually dead. She recovered and set the police on his track. Paul had moved on to Mildred, intending to repeat his crime, but she had discovered his identity, denounced him to the police, and he was imprisoned for 15 years. Now the three sisters are vacationing near the lonely seaside cottage where Mildred and Paul spent their honeymoon, and Mildred is convinced that Paul is out of prison and is coming after her to exact revenge. Celia Fremlin was a good and underrated mystery author, and Uncle Paul is one of my favourites of her books. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"Beautifully played out to a startling and valid ending... Fremlin is here to stay as a major mistress of insight and suspense." -- TheNew York Times "Fremlin puts a keen edge on the reader's curiosity and keeps it there... the writing is so good throughout." -- TheTimes (London) Literary Supplement "An original entertainment, with unexpected turns and fine touches." -- KirkusMeg and Isabel were just girls when "Uncle Paul" married their older half-sister, Mildred, and he soon vanished from their lives upon his exposure as a bigamist and a murderer. Fifteen years later, Uncle Paul is about to be released from prison, and all three sisters are seized with dread at the prospect of his return. Their family holiday at the seaside village where Mildred and Uncle Paul once honeymooned becomes the setting for a tense drama of suspicion, betrayal, and revenge. Author Celia Fremlin received an Edgar Award for her suspenseful debut novel, The Hours Before Dawn. Her second thriller, Uncle Paul, evokes a similar atmosphere of menace as the paranoia of her characters -- and readers -- combine to form a mood of increasing tension. Rich in psychological insight and dark humor, the elegant, razor-sharp quality of Fremlin's writing provides page-turning excitement. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This is a "domestic" psychological thriller, and I've read at least one other such book by Celia Fremlin that I enjoyed so I picked this one up. Unfortunately, I found this one to be lacking in either suspense or believeability.
Meg and Isabel's much older half-sister Mildred had been married to a man they knew as "Uncle Paul" when they were still young girls. As it turned out, Uncle Paul was a bigamist, and when this was discovered, Uncle Paul was hustled off to jail.
Now years later, Mildred, who is rather high strung, has remarried. Isabel, too, is on her second marriage, and her new husband is having difficulty adjusting to her rowdy children. Meg is a career woman in London, when she receives a call from Isabel insisting that Meg come down to the seashore where she and her family are vacationing and where Mildred has turned up after a spat with her husband. Isabel fears that Paul may be about to be released from jail and that they may all be in danger. (No reason is ever given about why Isabel thinks Paul is about to be released or about why she thinks they might all be in danger).
I'd pretty much describe this as Much Ado About Nothing. But of course the author has to come up with something to build suspense. For one, Isabel begins to think her new husband (the one having trouble adjusting to the rowdy children) might actually be Paul in disguise. Most of the other "scary" things are as silly and unbelievable as that.
Definitely not recommended.
1 1/2 stars
First line: "It is rare for any catastrophe to seem like a catastrophe right at the beginning." ( )