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<p>When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock.<br>Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war.<br>Rich at war with poor, teenagers at war with their parents, wives at war with their husbands, teachers at war with their pupils…Pagford is not what it first seems.<br>And the empty seat left by Barry on the town’s council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. Who will triumph in an election fraught with passion, duplicity and unexpected revelations?<br></p><p>Photo credit: © Wall to Wall Media Ltd. Photographer: Andrew Montgomery.</p>From Publishers Weekly<p>On the face of it, Rowling's first adult book is very different from the Harry Potter books that made her rich and famous. It's resolutely unmagical: the closest thing to wizardry is the ability to hack into the amateurish Pagford Parish Council Web site. Instead of a battle for worldwide domination, there's a fight over a suddenly empty seat on that Council, the vacancy of the title. Yet despite the lack of invisibility cloaks and pensieves, Pagford isn't so different from Harry's world. There's a massive divide between the haves and those pesky have-nots—the residents of the Fields, the council flat that some want to push off onto Yarvil, the county council nearby. In tiny Pagford, and at its school, which caters to have and have-nots alike, everyone is connected: teenager Krystal Weedon, the sole functioning member of her working-class family, hooks up with the middle-class son of her guidance counselor; the social worker watching over Krystal's troubled mother dates the law partner of the son of the dead Councilor's fiercest Council rival, who also happens to be the best friend of Councilor Barry Fairbrother; Krystal's great-grandmother's doctor was Fairbrother's closest ally; the daughters of the doctor and the social worker work together, along with the best friend of Krystal's hookup; and so on. When Fairbrother—born in Fields but now a middle-class Pagforder and one of the few people who can deal with the obstreperous Krystal—dies suddenly, the fight gets uglier. Rowling is relentlessly competent: all these people and their hatreds and hopes are established and mixed together. Secrets are revealed, relationships twist and break, and the book rolls toward its awful, logical climax with aplomb. As in the Harry Potter books, children make mistakes and join together with a common cause, accompanied here by adults, some malicious, some trying yet failing. Minus the magic, though, good and evil are depressingly human, and while the characters are all well drawn and believable, they aren't much fun. Agent: The Blair Partnership. (Sept. 27) </p>Review<p>Praise for THE CASUAL VACANCY:<br></p><p>"I had come under the spell of a great novel....A big, ambitious, brilliant, profane, funny, deeply upsetting and magnificently eloquent novel of contemporary England, rich with literary intelligence....This is a deeply moving book by somebody who understands both human beings and novels very, very deeply." (<em>Time</em> <em>Lev Grossman</em>)<br></p><p>"A vivid read with great, memorable characters and a truly emotional payoff....Rowling captures the humanity in everyone, even if that humanity is not always a pretty sight." (<em>People</em>)<br></p><p>"This book represents a truckload of shrewdness.... There were sentences I underlined for the sheer purpose of figuring out how English words could be combined so delightfully....genuinely moving." (<em>Washington Post</em>)<br></p><p>"A positively propulsive read." (<em>Wall Street Journal</em>)<br></p><p>"An insanely compelling page-turner....<em>The Casual Vacancy</em> is a comedy, but a comedy of the blackest sort, etched with acid and drawn with pitch....Rowling proves ever dexterous at launching multiple plot lines that roar along simultaneously, never entangling them except when she means to. She did not become the world's bestselling author by accident. She knows down in her bones how to make you keep turning the pages." (<em>The Daily Beast</em>)<br></p><p>"There are plenty of pleasures to be had in <em>The Casual Vacancy</em>....Parts of the story would be tonally of a piece with any Richard Price or Dennis Lehane novel, or an episode of <em>The Wire</em>." (<em>Parade</em>)<br></p><p>"Rowling knows how to write a twisty, involving plot....She is clearly a skilled writer." (<em>The Huffington Post</em>)<br></p><p>"<em>The Casual Vacancy</em> is a complete joy to read....a stunning, brilliant, outrageously gripping and entertaining evocation of British society today." (<em>The Mirror</em> (UK))<br></p><p>"Rowling has written a grand novel...a very brave book." (<em>The Bookseller</em> (UK))<br></p><p>"A study of provincial life, with a large cast and multiple, interlocking plots, drawing inspiration from Elizabeth Gaskell and George Eliot...<em>The Casual Vacancy</em> immerses the reader in a richly peopled, densely imagined world...intelligent, workmanlike, and often funny." (<em>The Guardian</em> (UK))<br></p><p>"<em>The Casual Vacancy</em>, JK Rowling's first adult novel, is sometimes funny, often startlingly well observed....Jane Austen herself would admire the way [Rowling] shows the news of Barry's death spreading like a virus round Pagford." (<em>Telegraph</em> (UK)) </p></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br></br>
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| Author: | J. K. Rowling |
|---|---|
| Publication Year: | 2012 |
| Language: | other |
| File Size: | 0.6007 |
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| Price: | FREE |
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