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Article: Batty governess fits in to `Country Life'
- Article from:
- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- January 21, 1999
- Author:
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The Country LifeBy Rachel CuskPicador USA. 342 pages. $24
Fresh air! Real people! A return to family values! Right-o.
The moment a character in a British novel craves country life,
gleeful readers know what to expect: the doddering, besotted
aristocrats; the grand old manor decaying; the local folk and
toothless perverts; even the animals not pleasingly pastoral but
randy and repulsive. The parodic country idyll is so well
entrenched as a genre in Britain that a whole generation of prep
school boys has memorized the dialogue from the cult film "Withnail
& I," in which two young London roommates, during their charming
weekend away, do things to a chicken that make the
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