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Annabel
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  • Vote Up0Vote Down samuelsamuel
    Posts: 1
    I hope it leaks soon, I've heard "Annabel", and it sounds fantastic.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down LowLow
    Posts: 906
    samuel said:

    I hope it leaks soon, I've heard "Annabel", and it sounds fantastic.



    I'm sorry, you've what? :O

  • Vote Up0Vote Down rewakrewak
    Posts: 830
    Are we reeeeally gonna start up this again? Remember when everyone and their dog claimed to have heard Rocket? 8-|
  • Vote Up0Vote Down chokkachokka
    Posts: 744
    Well I did hear Rocket..... When it came out. :)
  • Vote Up0Vote Down Jozzy81Jozzy81
    Posts: 3,214
    TALES OF US OUT IN 71 DAYS......
    Just Keep Things Simple.....
    Love Goldfrapp.....
  • Vote Up0Vote Down LowLow
    Posts: 906
    This may or may not have been posted before. Apologies if it was. 


  • Vote Up0Vote Down HolyOwlHolyOwl
    Posts: 373
    ^ Very interesting find, thank you!
    Be patient.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down The_CarpathianThe_Carpathian
    Posts: 1,837
    What a lovely, warm & gracious write-up.

    Great read & great find.
    A million fires before your harvest comes. To burn out.
    Wear the mask of a heathen. For the moon's lonely eyes.
  • Vote Up0Vote Down whisperitwhisperit
    Posts: 641
    I've just finished the book.

    As rewak says, the style is quite dense, with the narrative drive often broken up with the thoughts and memories of the characters. Its well written, if a bit self-conciously literary and precious for my taste.

    Its set on Labrador, and the specific ways of living on the island are central to the texture of the prose. .

    The central character is born hermaphrodite, but does not learn this until s/he reaches adolescence. Wayne/Annabel - and the other main characters - are portrayed with respect and delicacy

    To my mind the novel isn't especially about the issue of intersex or gender. It's as much about how life and its adversities affect our hopes and dreams as we grow older and more experienced; how we come to terms with things as they are rather than how we imagine they will/should be.


  • Vote Up0Vote Down A_is_AA_is_A
    Posts: 1,151
    I really enjoyed reading Ms. Winter's journal piece regarding Goldfrapp's Annabel. It certainly makes me want to hear it that much more.
    Post edited by A_is_A at 2013-07-06 14:43:47
    LOVE tasted CRITICAL
  • Vote Up0Vote Down StrangerStranger
    Posts: 563
    Middlesex is a better. I wonder if Alison read it after or before she read Annabel.
    “Beware of artists. They mix with all classes of society and are therefore most dangerous." — Queen Victoria
  • Vote Up0Vote Down chokkachokka
    Posts: 744
    Stranger! Glad ur back :)
  • Vote Up0Vote Down WhickwithyWhickwithy
    Posts: 5,163
    Wow!  Thanks for that, Low.  It gives a truly warm and fuzzy feeling.
    The Sentient Struggle For Transformation

    https://www.amazon.com/Sentient-Struggle-Transformation-Whickwithy/dp/1734822147/
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