Sinister Street, by Compton MacKenzie
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FROM a world of daisies as big as moons and of mountainous green hillocks Michael Fane came by some unrealized method of transport to the thin red house, that as yet for his mind could not claim an individual existence amid the uniformity of a long line of fellows. His arrival coincided with a confusion of furniture, with the tramp of men backwards and forwards from a cavernous vehicle very dry and dusty. He found himself continually being lifted out of the way of washstands and skeleton chests of drawers.
Sinister Street, by Compton MacKenzie- Published on: 2015-10-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 11.00" h x .73" w x 8.50" l, 1.65 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
About the Author Compton Mackenzie (1883-1972) was a writer with a huge output, over ninety books. He wrote too much, but novels like Sinister Street, satires like Vestal Fire and Extraordinary Women and entertainments like Whisky Galore deserve to survive. He was born in West Hartlepool, educated at St Paul's School and Magdalen College, Oxford (his upbringing is vividly described in Sinister Street). During the First World War he became Director of the Aegean Intelligence Service. He had wide interests: he co-founded The Gramophone magazine in 1923: he was President of the Siamese Cat Club: he was a Scottish nationalist. He also like islands, living on Capri and Barra, and was lampooned for this by D. H. Lawrence, appearing as Mr Cathcart in the short story 'The Man Who Loved Islands'. He thought of suing but, in the end, ticked D. H. Lawrence off for suggesting cowslips could grow in a granite landscape; they prefer lime.
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31 of 31 people found the following review helpful. Almost a Timeless Classic By L. Hudnal This book is still widely read in England. I was introduced to it while a student at Oxford University, and found it stunning. I now live in my native U.S.A., and have reread it to great effect. Compton-MacKenzie's great talent is creating the moods of life: the scenes of Oxford are the definitive in a long line of genre attempts at the same. The book was widely read for nearly half a century, and was in print for that long, with reissues happening periodically therafter. The life of Michael Fane is the life of a kind of sensitive, English upper-class Everyman. The dialogue is wonderful, all the inner life narrated is accessible and sympathetic. It remains a favorite among most who have read it.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Mostly hard work By Olsen There is no doubt that Compton MacKenzie is a good if not great writer but time has moved on and this book has not stood 'The Test of Time'. It is written with great feeling and creates great atmosphere but for the first two thirds of the novel the story just drags on. I persevered and in the last part things picked up and became quite interesting. I suppose I enjoyed the book and if you have time and patience, try for yourself.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. evokes a bygone era By Mr. D. P. Jay This book was banned by libraries. The section that reverberated with my experience was a thinly veiled reference to St. Stephen’s Bournemouth. Michael is cycling along the copast and has an invitation to go there. Mackenzie portrays what amounts to a pick-up of the teenager at Solemn Evensong by a slightly older bank-clerk called Prout, closely followed by Michael's initiation as a processional torch-bearer into the exotic world of the Anglo-Catholic sacristy: "The sacristy was crowded with boys in scarlet cassocks and slippers and zuchettos, quarrelling about their cottas and arguing about their heights. Everybody had a favourite banner which he wanted to escort and, to complicate matters still farther, everybody had a favourite companion by whose side he wished to walk."
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