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| Title | : | The 27th Kingdom |
| Author | : | Alice Thomas Ellis |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 159 pages |
| Published | : | October 4th 1982 by Penguin Books Ltd |
| Categories | : | Fiction. European Literature. British Literature |
Alice Thomas Ellis
Paperback | Pages: 159 pages Rating: 3.83 | 150 Users | 24 Reviews
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The 27th Kingdom is to be found in Chelsea, where Aunt Irene lives in a cosy, cluttered ménage with Kyril, her nephew. Their peace, however, is about to be invaded by Valentine, a young postulant sent by her Reverend mother to ‘test her vocation.’
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| Original Title: | The 27th Kingdom |
| ISBN: | 0140067043 (ISBN13: 9780140067040) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (1982) |
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Ratings: 3.83 From 150 Users | 24 ReviewsCriticize About Books The 27th Kingdom
What is it about Valentine, the black postulant nun, that causes strange things to happen, or to seem to happen, the miraculous and the tragic, and what is the magnetic power that she seems to hold over men?Released from the order to test her vocation, she is sent to live in the 27th kingdom, actually a pre-gentrified 1954 Chelsea, in the final home of the Rev. Mothers much-travelled Russian émigré sister Irene (to be pronounced Irina) and her nephew Kyril.In truth, the Rev. Mother is ratherWonderful as always
PR6055.L4856 A616 1999
My 2nd foray into AT Ellis's world. Not wholly satisfying. . . Valentine is my favorite - unflappable and sure in her belief, an infinity symbol of philosophical circularity that assures salvation (and makes a pretty cute bracelet if so bended metallically around a wrist).The other characters wear their flaws and positive traits jauntily, hats, gloves and jackets to match their respective destinations - some you get right away (evil is evil, after all!) and some grow into their role as you read
I'm reading Ellis' novels in order (this is #3) based on rave reviews from the Common Reader back when they were still in business. Her mordant wit is turned toward another set of unsavory characters leavened by a postulate nun and a sprinkling of the supernatural. I'm still amused but not yet raving.Opening of the book:The story I shall tell begins like this. Once upon a time, in the year of Our Lord 1954, a woman known as Aunt Irene, who insisted on being pronounced 'Irina' and spelled as I
Having once said that ATE is always reliable, this is not my favourite ATE book, but perhaps because it is more 'of its time' than others. Very much of a certain milieu too.
Alice Thomas Ellis was short-listed for the Booker prize for The 27th Kingdom. She is the author of A Welsh Childhood (autobiography), Fairy Tales and several other novels including The Summerhouse Trilogy, made into a movie starring Jeanne Moreau and Joan Plowright.
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