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Original Title:	The Glamour
ISBN:	0575075791 (ISBN13: 9780575075795)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Richard Grey, Susan Kewley
Literary Awards:	Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Foreign Novel (1988)

The Glamour

Christopher Priest

Paperback | Pages: 235 pages

Rating: 3.79 | 854 Users | 58 Reviews

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Title	:	The Glamour
Author	:	Christopher Priest
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 235 pages
Published	:	2005 by Gollancz / Orion (first published 1984)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Science Fiction. Fiction. Speculative Fiction

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Cameraman Richard Grey's memory has blanked out the few weeks before he was injured in a car bomb explosion. When he is visited by a girl who seems to have been his lover, his attempts to recall the forgotten period produce an odyssey through France and conflicting accounts of what happened. When Susan Kewley speaks to him of that time, he finds himself glimpsing a terrible twilight world - the world of the glamour.

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Ratings: 3.79 From 854 Users | 58 Reviews

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Christopher Priest gets thrown into the scifi& fantasy section but he's not a genre writer. In this book, like "the affirmation", he blurs the boundaries between alternate reality and the delusions of a disturbed mind, without compromising the internal consistency of the narrative. Towards the end he gets a bit meta, going from exploring memory to confabulation to poking holes in the fourth wall. Although it's psychologically intense, the setting is solid, brings back memories of Britain in

(3.5) This Möbius strip of a novel did not fascinate me quite to the extent that The Affirmation did, though it certainly kept me turning the pages. It's the kind of novel one can blaze through reading for sheer pleasure of being caught up in the plot, or one can pick through the details, doubling and tripling back in the text, in an attempt to decode Priest's cryptographic prose. There is also the sociological commentary to ruminate on, which is compelling in its own right. At times, though,

I had been a big fan of Priest's earlier fiction when I picked this up. It felt like a new direction from his earlier work but was, nonetheless, built on the same foundations.It was mind-boggling. Priest took a simple though bizarre notion and played with it in a deft and controlled manner. It is a novel which utterly beguiles.

Unreliable narrators are a tricky game. Readers are willing to be led around until theyre not; push too hard and what was once fun feels like a flimsy trick. The Glamour tiptoes this line again and again, then doubles back and folds in on itself in ways that make the (many) unreliable narrators and their stories look like an interstate pileup detangling the truth from the lies is near impossible. Then again, every word in any novel is a reality construct, so whos fooling who? Or allowing

The more Priest one reads, obviously, the more themes and narrative devices start to repeat -- I'll admit I rolled my eyes a bit when it became clear that this was doing *both* the split-universe thing from The Separation *and* the mobius-strip narrative of The Affirmation -- but Priest's imagination is so fertile and his writing so gripping that it kind of doesn't matter. Of the Priest novels I've made it through, this is actually the one where his trademark ambiguity seems the most productive,

If I could strike the entire last chapter and somehow force a new one I would. Until I reached it I was ready to give this a solid five stars and then ... blup. A nasty wet soft slap of ... I don't know what. I'll give Priest the benefit of the doubt and assume that this was his intended ending all along but it sure did feel like he wrote himself into a corner and gave up.But still! Everything leading up to that was a great example of not only an unreliable narrator but unreliable narrators

This is just an awesome book that both makes sense and it doesn't if that makes sense... Confused, well that's the author's trademark, but it is the exceptional sort of confusion that enlightens...Read it and read it again at least once. A great story with superb characters and one of the best novels I've read in a long time.