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product_id: 49319969
title: "Subtle Bodies"
brand: "norman rush"
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reviews_count: 6
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# Subtle Bodies

**Brand:** norman rush
**Price:** VT6507
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- **What is this?** Subtle Bodies by norman rush
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## Description

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        			Rush is a great writer on love... His sentences are dazzling traps that ensnare the consciousness in mid-sprint and is full of well-observed light comedy. Subtle Bodies flickers with the possibility of a utopian politics rooted in love and friendship. --Times Literary SupplementThis is a rare thing - a book that sets difficult political notions like risk management alongside enduring personal insight, all within a thoroughly enjoyable portrait of marriage and friendship. --Review 31Subtle Bodies is more concentrated and more charming [than his earlier novels]. The source of much of the novel&apos;s charm is Nina, at once the most disagreeable and most loveable of Rush&apos;s heroines. --London Review of Books&apos;Rush explores how, for Ned, a romantic partner ought to be one&apos;s truest, &apos;total friend&apos;. If that sounds saccharine, it is. But it is touching too. In any case, the effect is frequently offset by the laconic, deadpan tone in which the novel unfolds.&apos; --Daily TelegraphSubtle Bodies is more concentrated and more charming [than his earlier novels]. The source of much of the novel&apos;s charm is Nina, at once the most disagreeable and most loveable of Rush&apos;s heroines. --London Review of BooksPoignant... Fans will find Subtle Bodies a crisp enjoyable read. --Financial TimesIts frenetic pace, zesty tone and enjoyably madcap premise flirt pleasingly with screwball. Subtle Bodies proves that Rush is a writer of sharp humour, vigorous prose and real ambition. --Literary Review&apos;This is a clever novel about middle age. It&apos;s funny, too&apos; **** --Paperback review, Independent on Sunday
				    	
			    	
        		  
        		  
        	
          
              
        	  	  About the Author
        	  
        	  
        		  
        			NORMAN RUSH is the author of three previous books; Whites, Mating (winner of the National Book Award) and Mortals. His stories have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review and Best American Short Stories. He and his wife Elsa were Co-Directors of the Peace Corps program in Botswana. They now live in upstate New York.

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## Customer Reviews

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    subtle, convincing exploration of 3 friends reuniting to mourn the death of the leader of their student group 25 years before
  

*by W***N on 10 December 2013*









  
  
    This, for me, was quite an unusual novel. Written in two voices, Ned and Nina - a husband and wife, about the funeral arrangements of the husband's friend Douglas who had been the ringleader of a small group of 4, 3 of whom are now reunitied at an event that also hosts a world of others, also coming for the event. Meanwhile life goes on around them: Nina has pursued Ned to the event because they need to keep trying to get pregnant, Ned has left behind the arrangements he is making for a big antiwar rally in 2003, and both think from time to time about their families, Nina phoning her mum a couple of times.The writing is alert, the plot developments and revelations about the friends - in time past, in the more recent past, and in the present - are subtle and convincing; and in so far as the novel is asking the question 'are they still the same people?' it's also persuasive and though-provoking Ned's eulogy for Douglas does seem to hit the right tone in the denouement, and the final chapter returning Ned to his day to day life is also really well judged. For all that I felt slightly dissatisfied at the end of the novel - I just wonder if these talents should not have been put the use of something more serious - and perhaps in the other novels of Norman Rush (which I haven't - yet - read at all) they have been....
  


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    Entertaining
  

*by L***G on 24 August 2014*









  
  
    An entertaining read. While the set-up is far-fetched, the characters are warmly drawn and despite the serious subjects of friendship and relationships, there are some snort-out-loud moments too.
  


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    a great read
  

*by E***D on 6 August 2015*









  
  
    a great read
  


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