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Entry into Jerusalem
John Worth is an artist - not a Bohemian, but a stubborn and self-disciplined man. Friends and colleagues try to influence his work - his mistress wants him to introduce more political themes and his dealer urges him towards fugurative painting. But Worth, though tempted, resists all manipulation. The development must come from within himself; and through his painting Christ's Entry Into Jerusalem, he reveals an image of startling, shocking individuality. 'Entry into Jerusalem is one of the best. Middleton has never written more economically or more pungently. He is a master of characterisation through dialogue adn of a succinct presentation of a complex relationship.' Sunday Telegraph'It makes me burst into superlatives.' Mail on Sunday
- GenresFiction
172 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1983
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Stanley Middleton
55 books17 followersStanley Middleton wrote 45 novels, including 1974's Booker Prize-winner Holiday. A Cautious Approach was his last novel.
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January 3, 2019
Read this in 1993. These are the notes I made at the time:
This is the first book of his I’ve read, though apparently he’s written a ‘score’ of them. Very quiet book, no action in any sense of the word really, and barely any plot: just a slowish, peaceful moving along of a few events that would hardly count as anything in the local news let alone the world’s eyes. The big events actually occur after the book is finished and we only something of them because the writer flashforwards. Lots of dialogue, well characterized stuff, too. Only a handful of characters, probably less than ten. The climax has hardly any great momentum, and almost seems like a petering out of the story, such as it is. Very little is rounded off, except for a couple of the female characters – these people carry on their lives long after we’ve finished reading about them. And revelations about their lives are suddenly thrown in, long into the story, things that other authors might have placed early in the piece.
This is the first book of his I’ve read, though apparently he’s written a ‘score’ of them. Very quiet book, no action in any sense of the word really, and barely any plot: just a slowish, peaceful moving along of a few events that would hardly count as anything in the local news let alone the world’s eyes. The big events actually occur after the book is finished and we only something of them because the writer flashforwards. Lots of dialogue, well characterized stuff, too. Only a handful of characters, probably less than ten. The climax has hardly any great momentum, and almost seems like a petering out of the story, such as it is. Very little is rounded off, except for a couple of the female characters – these people carry on their lives long after we’ve finished reading about them. And revelations about their lives are suddenly thrown in, long into the story, things that other authors might have placed early in the piece.
January 29, 2013
Brilliant writer, my dad went to school with him says he used to help him with his homework (yes dad course you did). but check him out Nottingham known for lawrence and Sillitoe but I think Stanley Middleton is as good
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