Divine Concepts of Physical Beauty

by Michael Bracewell

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394583833
• ISBN13: 9780394583839
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 261 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A money-hungry coming of age story of in Thatcher's Britain

I found this book to be a powerful, if perhaps unintentional, incitement of the excess of Thatcher era Britain. The characters were able to maintain one's attention, not by their pathos, but by the level of detail to which they and their actions were described. The feeling one was left with was not friendship or endearment or even like, but a deep and rather disturbing sense of intimacy. In some key ways, place and characterization, Bracewell's work is very reminiscent of another English author, Julian Barnes. Nevertheless, Bracewell seems not quite as confident in his style, as though he didn't feel entirely comfortable escaping from the conventions of his grammar teachers. All of that said, I considered "Divine Concepts of Physical Beauty" to be good enough that I gave 10 copies of it away as Christmas gifts the year that I read it