1998 Darling, Julia CROCODILE SOUP NY: Ecco Press, c1998 first printing 350pp 8vo Remainder mark on lower edge of textblock, else fine trade hardcover in d/j.

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Title

CROCODILE SOUP

Publisher

Ecco

Publication Date

1998

Language

English

ISBN 10

0060196025

ISBN 13

9780060196028

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

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Dust Jacket Included

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Thirtyyearold Gert Hardcastle finds her pursuit of her potential perfect mate, Eva, complicated by unresolved and often hilarious feelings about her childhood and her difficult family, including her twin brother and her father, who vanished in Africa. A first novel.

Review

Gert works in the Egyptian room at a museum. At 35 her life is in stasis. Her mother, whom she hasn't seen for years, writes her a letter asking for help and forgiveness. At work, she sees a young woman ballroom dancing alone in the empty cafeteria and it's love at first sight. How can she seduce this pale-faced beauty? She starts remembering her strange childhood, how her father left for a crocodile farm in Africa and her mother started drinking while Gert and her twin brother Frank floated about in their own psychic spheres. Her articulation of this lonely time releases her from alienation and the novel pushes forward to its moving resolution.

Darling's prose would make any poet jealous. The idiosyncrasies of Gert's world and imagination are drawn so precisely that we can almost smell the house in which she grew up, almost feel physically transported to the particular corners of her outsider perspective. It is a novel about mothers and lovers and the struggle to grow up, a novel of spirit and humour wrought out of the mini-tragedies of adolescence and family psycho-drama which provoke Gert's mid-thirties crisis and its exorcism. Julia Darling is a real writer. This is a debut that promises a great career. --Hannah Griffiths

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