![]() ![]() ![]() His writing style might not be for everyone, but as someone who really loves the small details, I find it to be endlessly entertaining. While I would say that the novel can be difficult to read and at times overly gruesome, his love for pulp never supersedes his desire to tell a good story. This can be unnecessary at times, but Faber’s goal is to portray true domesticity with all of its warts, so he would be remiss in glossing over chamber pots and nosebleeds. ![]() Crimson is foremost a fictional work, but Faber thoroughly immerses the reader in the unfamiliar world of this London, which is quite unlike the rather wholesome city featured in Dickens.įaber includes a lot of sex and violence, both in graphic detail. He treats the gorgeous and the grotesque with equal care and does a fantastic job of contrasting the modern advances of the upper echelons of 1870s London with the poverty and decay that characterized its underbelly. My take: Many critics have described Faber’s style as Dickensian with a modern, sexual twist, with which I agree. Romola Garai as Sugar in the BBC adaptation ![]()
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