Thomas Hinde (1926–2014)
Autor(a) de The Domesday Book: England's Heritage, Then and Now
About the Author
Obras de Thomas Hinde
Happy as Larry 3 cópias
Spain, a personal anthology 2 cópias
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Chitty, Sir Thomas Willes, 3rd Baronet
- Data de nascimento
- 1926-03-02
- Data de falecimento
- 2014-03-07
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England, UK
- Local de nascimento
- Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- West Hoathly, Sussex, England, UK
- Educação
- Winchester College
University of Oxford (University College) - Ocupação
- civil servant
visiting professor
novelist - Relacionamentos
- Chitty, Susan (wife)
White, Antonia (mother-in-law) - Organizações
- Royal Navy (WWII)
Inland Revenue
Shell Petroleum
Boston University - Premiações
- Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
Membros
Resenhas
Listas
Prêmios
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 30
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 503
- Popularidade
- #49,235
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 50
His wife is well-meaning and compliant, seeing her duty to be to love and care for her husband, despite his unconcealed affair with a neighbour. She is a door-mat! The other family members are Owen, an erratic and obsessional 17 year old with more than a hint of autistic spectrum disorder, and David, the youngest son, who becomes involved in a barely explained, but profound, way with a mature ex-Army officer - religion is declared, sex implied.
The action takes place in the family home, a large house with woodland and a tennis court near military ranges on the Surrey / Hampshire borders. Initially the reader is given the view of young men who are, for various reasons, at odds with their domineering and insensitive father. It gradually becomes clear that Mr Nicholas is not simply pompous, opinionated and prejudiced but has within him the seeds of madness. In the late forties pharmacological treatment of mental illnes was largely confined to sedation with the alternative of psychotherapy using analytic-based methods. Mr. Nicholas is ineffectively treated by his GP and the book ends with his attempted suicide. The ending is inconclusive as, apparently, was typical of Hinde's fiction.
Thomas Hinde, whose first novel this is, was grouped with his contemporaries, John Braine, Kingsley Amis and John Wain as an Angry Young Man.… (mais)