Good Behaviour - Softcover
Miss Iris Aroon St. Charles's recollections of her shy, awkward youth among the elegant Irish country gentry early in the century gradually reveal a barbaric strain, a faint but insistent aroma of cruelty, and the ruling delusion of her life
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Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles family sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, the large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealousy, and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behavior. But crumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. This elegant and allusive novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, established Molly Keane as the natural successor to Jean Rhys.
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Born in Ireland in 1904 into a 'rather serious Hunting and Fishing Church-going family' who gave her little education at the hands of governesses, Molly's interests were 'hunting & horses & having a good time'; she began writing only to supplement her dress allowance. She died in 1996.
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- PublisherPlume
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0525482245
- ISBN 13 9780525482246
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages245
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic Anglo-Irish St Charles f amily sinks into a state of decaying grace. To Aroon St Charles, the large and unlovely daughter of the house, the fierce forces of sex, money, jealou sy, and love seem locked out by the ritual patterns of good behavior. But c rumbling codes of conduct cannot hope to save the members of the St Charles family from their own unruly and inadmissible desires. This elegant and al lusive novel, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, established Molly Keane as the natural successor to Jean Rhys. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000063014
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