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Snobs

a Novel
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Aug 03, 2016jazpur rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Julian Fellowes has all his known ingredients in this first novel published hot on the heels of his Oscar-winning screen play for Gosford Park.The book was a Times Bestseller.It doesn't quite work for me.I think it was the narrator who was a 'fly on the wall'. He remains nameless throughout. In the action but at the same time removed and observant. The highly visual descriptions and the clever writing carried off the froth and inevitable outcomes in what is essentially a novel of its time rather than from an earlier era.When it comes to the aristocracy and the upwardly mobile in Britain, nothing has changed.Julian Fellowes is very knowledgeable on this topic.There could easily be a film or TV series there.