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Rose
A coming-of-age novel features Rose, a seven year old who becomes a tragic victim of her mother's affair with a sea captain and is forced to grow up in squalor and poverty in London. By the author of Sexual Intercourse .
192 pages, Paperback
Published September 27, 1992
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April 28, 2016
Young Rose starts out travelling on a wooden sailing ship with her mum and siblings, in what is briefly a warm-hearted children's story, before quickly encountering puberty and sexual jealousy, and then heading back to Blighty for a dead-eyed, drugged-up, somnambulant adolescence in 70s London, gazing affectlessly at the heroin casualties, street violence, and pub rock at the Hope&Anchor. The narrative ends perfunctorily, as it is running around endlessly in the head of 30-year old Rose, who has not reached any resolution or escape from her problems. I suppose this was a missed opportunity for a truly morbid fusion of Roald Dahl and Ian McEwan.
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