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The Gay '40s; Sarah Waters Gets Blitzed

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From: The Stranger
Date: 20060323
Author:Anonymous

SARAH WATERS'S NOVEL Fingersmith, shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2002, was a mad and brilliant thing--a piece of lesbian historical fiction that whipped its history up from the canons of literature (a grubby farmed infant straight out of Oliver Twist is sent hurtling into a gothic thriller that would dizzy even Wilkie Collins) and built its plausibly conflicted same-sex affair out of the familiar intimacies of wealth and servitude. And then there's that massive plot twist. The pleasures of Fingersmith are many: its texture, the grinding suspense, and of course, those guilty, gleeful ...

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