A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home.
As Ottessa Moshfegh writes in her foreword to this new edition, Brooke evokes childhood vulnerability and adult cruelty in a way that nice people are too polite to admit they understand..
Out of print for nearly half a century (and never published in the United States), Lord Jim at Home reveals a daring writer long overdue for reappraisal, whose work has retained all its originality and power.
It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up isolated in an atmosphere of privilege and hidden violence; who goes to war, and returns; and then, one day--like the hero of Joseph Conrad\'s classic Lord Jim-- commits an act that calls his past, his character, his whole world into question. -- Illustrated London News When Dinah Brooke\'s second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as squalid and startling, nastily horrific, and a monstrous parody of upper-middle class English life.
A brilliant, chilling picture of the English middle class at home
