Mr. Dalloway: A Novella

by Robin Lippincott

Book Overview

A virtuoso performance of postmodern daring, Mr. Dalloway offers a rich augmentation of Virginia Woolf's classic novel.

It is June 29, 1927 Richard and Clarissa Dalloway's thirtieth anniversary and also a day of historical significance. Richard has arranged a surprise party for his wife. As he leaves their house in Westminster to buy flowers for the party, his thoughts turn to Robert Davies (Robbie), a young editor at Faber with whom he has...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1889330299
• ISBN13: 9781889330297
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Sarabande Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

A beautifully written book

Mr. Dalloway deserves all the attention it is getting. Focusing on the husband of the protagonist of Virgina Wolff's Mrs. Dalloway, it fills in the gaps and makes for a wonderful story. Again, it covers only one day in the life but, oh, what a day. Mr. Lippincott writes with elegance (as always). His wonderful collection of short stories, The Real, True Angel, showed us what he could do -- and this novel doesn't let the reader down. It is a short, spare book which lingers in the mind for a long, intense time.

An asset to your bookshelf

MR. DALLOWAY is a triumphant exploration of time, love, omens, and selfhood--an elegant union of language and ideas. Throughout, the prose simply billows. Like most of D.H. Lawrence's work, the novella is savage but wondrous, exposing human nature and society with a seamless blend of evaluation and forgiveness. A lush, satisfying read!

Sensuous prose.

This book was a nostalgic visit with an old friend who surprises one with a new twist. Wonderfully crafted and a pleasure to read. Mr. Lippincott has captured Virginia Woolf and made her his own.

Highly recommended!

MR. DALLOWAY was truly a pleasure to read. The language is elegant and lucid, the characters engaging, and the story expertly, suspensefully, and wittily told. I savored every page!

A daring literary event.

There are few writers who can successfully pull into a compelling narrative a literary tradition, an historical personage, real-time events and circumstance. Mr. Lippincott in his audacious and lyrical show has masterfully brought to surface and to light the subtle and vascular connections between an intimate group of people. (An intimacy physical, emotional, mental, spiritual.) Like Frost's Silken Tent or Heloise's letters, an incomparable expression of the body of love. Read and enjoy.