Her Name Was Lola
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So, for instance, Max has lunch, on the day of the dwarf, with a friend called Seamus Flannery. Later, he writes a character called Moe Levy, who is waylaid by a stinking dwarf on his way to lunch with Fergal Hagerty. Moe Levy, invented to help Max understand his own betrayal of Lola, proves unsuitable for the purpose when he takes the high moral ground and refuses to commit adultery. Other characters who help or advise Max, such as Istvan Fallok and Harold Klein, drop in from earlier books, though it isn't clear that he needs so many sounding boards, particularly since he has been having extended dialogues with his own mind since page one.
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Even Charlotte Prickles 'Why don't you call me Charlie? All three of Max's published novels share a pattern, as his rival for Lola's affections, the caricature toff Basil Meissen-Potts, points out: This is also the pattern of Her Name Was Lola. It isn't clear from this distance whether Hoban's embrace of his theme, the Eurydice myth which he tries to wrestle towards the happy ending it has in Gluck's operatic version, is rapturous or agonised, like the dance of the mouse and his child in the book of that name, a compound clockwork toy that can do nothing else.
Hoban's body of work is unusual for the fact that his masterpiece, Riddley Walker, is unlike everything he has written before or since. Since then, he has never matched his masterpiece's conjuration of a distant future that feels like a far past.
If I'd written Riddley Walker, I would feel, as Hoban clearly does not, that I was owed a lifetime's supply of laurels to rest on. In any case, it would be wrong as well as rude to say of his work since Riddley Walker that lightning doesn't strike twice.
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Lightning strikes on almost every page of Her Name Was Lola - in the description of sheep at Maiden Castle grazing 'on the layered years', in Lola's suggestion that if the snow stops in St Martin's Lane they only have to turn the street upside down to start it up again. All that's missing is that final refinement of lightning which turns the composite creature, waiting on slab or word processor, into a single living being. Topics Books The Observer. So the thousands who will flock to see the latest Manilow creation may do so ironically, but they should be aware that they are adding to his prestige.
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The musical about a showgirl named Lola had an month-run in London three years ago. We're not sure how to interpret the London reception. The Sunday Telegraph proclaimed: It was also graced with the presence of the man himself -- as one local paper described it, "dressed in black, surrounded by men in black. Manilow's old reputation, as the singer of such soft-pop masterpieces as Mandy and I Write the Songs , is not quite buried yet.
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