![]() On top of this, it's a queer novel that draws on rea This is a difficult book to rate. ![]() Usually a writer opts for one or the other over the other, but here they exist in tandem. Add to this, however, an exemplary balancing act that gives equal importance to both message/morality AND language. So why should people read this book? Well, it is well written in a kind of Joycean vein. I thought it was roughly decent (~2.5) the whole way through, but then it had a really good ending (so what, 2.75-3?). With its innovative structure and style, perfectly mirroring the voices and experiences of women forced by society to live on the margins, The Microcosm remains as powerful today as when originally published in 1966.more Elsewhere there are women such as Marie, trapped within an unwanted marriage and unable to admit her sexuality, and Cathy, for whom the discovery that she is not 'the only one in the world' is an affirmation of her existence. At the House of Shades, Matt, a bar-room philosopher, tries to make sense of the disparate lives which cross here - of Judy who saves herself and her finery for a Saturday night lover, of Steve the gym teacher who dreads a chance encounter with a pupil in this twilight environment, and of Matt herself, who needs these vicarious exchanges despite the security of her relati At the House of Shades, Matt, a bar-room philosopher, tries to make sense of the disparate lives which cross here - of Judy who saves herself and her finery for a Saturday night lover, of Steve the gym teacher who dreads a chance encounter with a pupil in this twilight environment, and of Matt herself, who needs these vicarious exchanges despite the security of her relationship with Rae and her sense that this lesbian sanctuary is a prison too, enforcing the guilt and estrangement of the city streets beyond.
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