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The Grand Sophy is $1.99 today.
Heads up, though: this is the one semi-famous for the monstrously offensive antisemitism. (Seriously, it's so over-the-top bad that you'd think it was a parody... but it's not.)
Readers deal with it in any number of ways: reading straight through, eyes popping at the horror (made even worse by the fact that the book was originally published in 1950, post-WWII); skipping Chapter Eleven entirely; skipping the whole book.
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ooh, now i wanna read it. but i don't wanna PAY for it! not even for $1.99.
Posted by: marjorie | 11 December 2012 at 09:34 AM
Hmm, thanks for the heads up. I'm buying it anyway since it's one I don't have, but I'll be going in with my eyes open!
Posted by: Julie | 11 December 2012 at 10:22 AM
The rest of Grand Sophy is a delightful frothy mix; it's one of the best Heyers, except for the scene with the moneylender. I deal with it by refusing to believe that Goldhanger is Jewish.
It's also a case where the author is uglier than the characters -- Sophy deals with the guy as a shady moneylender, not as the avatar of a despised race. It's Heyer who gets all sputtery and icky. For me this means that the scene doesn't stain the rest of the book (it detracts from an admiration of Heyer, but that covers all her works, not this one particularly).
Posted by: Beth | 11 December 2012 at 04:07 PM