Be the first to ask a question about Loving Mephistopheles In Loving Mephistopheles there is not the danger that one will be lost in a sub story only to be brought up short and slightly dazed when it switches.The third part of the novel, with its seemingly extreme change of genre, jars slightly. She also felt compelled to write further about homelessness.
Leo also develops, as he slowly and painfully discovers his humanity.
Reviewed by Kate Saunders. Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. I teach at the Courtauld Institute, where I have a Fellowship from the Royal Literary Fund. So it was with extreme trepidation that I approached a novel that novelist and critic, Hilary Mantel, describes as “An epic narrative full of energy, with the wild and joyful inventiveness of an Angela Carter story.” Do I, I pondered, really want to read a book that is written in the style of…..? Keep that question in your head, I shall return to it later.Loving Mephistopheles is the story of Jenny Mankowitz, a working class unfortunate of low morals and high expectations. Miranda Miller describing the gestation of her latest novel, Loving Mephistopheles.
Her contract to love him will reside at the Metaphysical Bank in High Street Kensingtonforever. Reality TV has, it seems, replaced real life. Leo has lived through thousands of years in numerous incarnations. One only has to look at Nights at the Circus. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. My eighth novel, Angelica Painress of Minds, about the 18th century painter Angelica Kauffman, will be published in August. So far I have published seven novels, a book of short stories about Saudi Arabia called A Thousand and One Coffee Mornings and a book of interviews with homeless women and politicians. Living with him one minute, the next escaping his clutches and living alone in Italy. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.
Here we see a true writer who uses her passions to great effect. Buy Loving Mephistopheles by Miller, Miranda (ISBN: 9780720612752) from Amazon's Book Store. So far I have published seven novels, a book of short stories about Saudi Arabia called A Thousand and One Coffee Mornings and a book of inI've lived in Italy, Libya, Saudi Arabia and Japan and now live in North London with my husband, a musician.
The idea of writing about a woman who lived forever seemed both defiant and entertaining. Jenny is a third-rate music-hall chanteuse living in Edwardian London. Leo is not the stilted, awkward gentleman he at first appears.
In addition to the novels she has written a collection of short stories and a non-fiction work exploring the effect of homelessness on women. In 1923, in a West End restaurant, Jenny, a music hall chanteuse, signs a contract with Leo, her lover, a mysterious conjuror: she will look 25 forever in return for loving him.To explain her failure to age, Jenny reinvents herself as her own daughter in wartime London and as her granddaughter in 1960s London. When she bears a real daughter that may or may not be Leo's, his destructive nature comes to the fore. At the same time Leo understands that Jenny is the one woman that he has truly loved and that perhaps it is time the Devil made a stab at family life, whatever the consequences. We have become a nation of voyeurs.
Through him, she sells her soul in exchange for eternal youth, and the two proceed to blaze a trail through the history of the 20th century.
When she remarks to her mentor and lover Leo that she never wants to grow old, she is unwittingly making a pact with the Devil.
One can see why Miller has been compared to Angela Carter; she has the same breadth of imagination, inventiveness and audacity. Jenny is a gutter-bred beauty making a living as a singer in the music halls when she meets the love of her life, the mysterious Leo. Welcome back. 0720612756
Nine years in the writing, she originally intended it to be a trilogy.
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