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Every Eye Hardcover – July 30, 2006

by Isobel English (Author)

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Isobel English, a novelist of the 1950s, wrote three brief books about adultery and damnation admired today by Muriel Spark and Beryl Bainbridge. Every Eye concerns Hattie, a woman not really at home anywhere, least of all among her manipulative family, which has assigned her the role of shabby-genteel London spinster. She has understood little about her existence, and about her strange, aborted love affair with a much older man the central mystery of her life. Now, while in Ibiza with her new young husband, the meaning of her past is becoming clear, its hidden patterns emerging from gray English shadows into the blazing Mediterranean sun. "It is in Ibiza that the story breaks free from its resentments," said Anita Brookner in praise of this remarkable neglected novel, "a lucidly written account of various kinds of confusion ... and a valuable lesson in where to look for freedom."

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Hatty, the narrator of this exquisite 1956 novel, is a piano teacher who was born with a lazy eye. Though her vision has been repaired, a lingering feeling of isolation makes it seem that "this outward sign was only the visible proof of inward impediment." Hatty's voice on the page vividly conveys her sense of "discordancy" with others, as the action shifts between recollections of adolescence and young-adulthood in grim, gray England and her considerably cheerier present, travelling through a Technicolor Spain with a new, much younger husband. The true marvel of the novel lies in the taut interweaving of these narratives: past informing present and present recasting past. Enlightenment is kept satisfyingly in abeyance until a rapturous conclusion on a mountaintop in Ibiza.
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This is writing as good as it gets. . . A beautiful, beautiful novel. Read it twice. --Debra Murphy, Catholic Fiction.net

A wonderfully idiosyncratic, compressed exploration of identity, vision, and will. --Valerie Sayers, Commonweal Magazine

Isobel English is a perfectionist, crafting aphoristic sentences as if she were doing an etching. . . Every Eye is full of paradoxes and tonal dissonances. --Ed Block, America Magazine

Every Eye by Isobel English is a gorgeously written novel about the deep sadness that can underlie our attempts at love, even when these attempts are deemed successful. English reveals that the price of clear sight, when applied to those around us, can be more dangerous to our happiness than a nice bit of willful ignorance. Isobel English exemplifies the sort of writer who can become too easily overlooked due to circumstance and prejudice. --Alice Sebold, author of The Lovely Bones

Isobel English is a perfectionist, crafting aphoristic sentences as if she were doing an etching. . . Every Eye is full of paradoxes and tonal dissonances. --Ed Block, America Magazine

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Hardcover: 151 pages
Publisher: David R Godine (July 30, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1574231995
ISBN-13: 978-1574231991
Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 0.8 x 6.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 2 customer reviews
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i agree that the writing is good, but this novel is not that interesting and is certainly not compelling. maybe i have outgrown this "anita brookner"-type of novel?

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Another remarkable rediscovery from Persephone

August 28, 2004

The editors at persephone Books in London have done a tremendous service by reissuing these terrific and beautiful editions of neglected twentieth-century women's classics; it's a true shame these books aren't more available in the United States in affordable editions. EVERY EYE is one of the most beautifully written books in their series; Isobel English's gift for narrative description (particularly for landscape and for fabrics) is superb. The story initially seems to be out of Caroline Blackwood territory, with its heroine's repeating complaints about the maternal figures in her life (particularly her aunt); but as the novel unfolds it moves far beyond that, and its deft shuttlings back between the heroine's present (her honeymoon in Ibiza) and her past seem miraculous. Cinema is one of the places where we are best used to such shifts, but there's little filmic in English's technique--her talents are thoroughly those of the novelistic. The gorgeousness of the prose and narrative drive allow you to overlook the conventionality of the very guessable "surprise ending."

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