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Good Behaviour
Good Behaviour
Author: Molly Keane
I do know how to behave -- believe me, because I know. I have always known...' — Behind the gates of Temple Alice the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy and love seem locked out by the ritual p...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781844083244
ISBN-10: 1844083241
Publication Date: 6/1/2006
Pages: 256
Edition: New
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3.5 stars, based on 1 rating
Publisher: Virago Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
Members Wishing: 5
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This is one of the few books I've read that has a fat person as the sympathetic main character. And although for the first 240 pages she seems doomed to the gloomy circumstances of her birth and girth, in the last three pages she is gloriously vindicated! In retrospect, it was fun--I feel like a wonderful joke was played on me! And it helped me to get into the experience of someone who is treated, both intentionally and unintentionally, as less than a person because she is fat.
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