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| Title | : | Mr. Chartwell |
| Author | : | Rebecca Hunt |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 242 pages |
| Published | : | February 8th 2011 by The Dial Press (first published January 1st 2010) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. European Literature. British Literature. Magical Realism |
Rebecca Hunt
Hardcover | Pages: 242 pages Rating: 3.41 | 2005 Users | 444 Reviews
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July 1964. Chartwell House, Kent: Winston Churchill wakes at dawn. There’s a dark, mute “presence” in the room that focuses on him with rapt concentration.It’s Mr. Chartwell.
Soon after, in London, Esther Hammerhans, a librarian at the House of Commons, goes to answer the door to her new lodger. Through the glass she sees a vast silhouette the size of a mattress.
It’s Mr. Chartwell.
Charismatic, dangerously seductive, Mr. Chartwell unites the eminent statesman at the end of his career and the vulnerable young woman. But can they withstand Mr. Chartwell’s strange, powerful charms and his stranglehold on their lives? Can they even explain who or what he is and why he has come to visit?
In this utterly original, moving, funny, and exuberant novel, Rebecca Hunt explores how two unlikely lives collide as Mr. Chartwell’s motives are revealed to be far darker and deeper than they at first seem.
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| Original Title: | Mr. Chartwell |
| ISBN: | 1400069408 (ISBN13: 9781400069408) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Esther Hammerhans, Winston Churchill |
| Literary Awards: | Guardian First Book Award Nominee for Longlist (2010) |
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Winston Churchill famously described his depression as a Black Dog; the premise of Rebecca Hunts first novel is that there really was a black dog Black Pat Chartwell, a six-foot-seven talking dog who walks on his hind legs. The events of Mr Chartwell take place in July 1964, in the week running up to Churchills retirement from Westminster (and scant months before his death). Black Pat becomes a lodger in the home of Esther Hammerhans, a clerk in the House of Commons library. Just as ChurchillThis is a clever and funny book about a serious topic. Churchill named his depression a black dog and Rebecca Hunt personifies the dog. Mr Chartwell is a very large (human sized) black labrador who can speak and interact. His job is with those who have depression and he takes his job seriously. The story is set over 5 days in July 1964.Mr Chartwell (or Black Pat as he is also known) divides his time between Winston Churchill, who is retiring from Parliament and Esther, a House of Commons
I listened to the audio version, and highly recommend it. The narrator's depiction of Black Pat revealed his wit, sarcasm and dark presence so well. The author does a fine job of bringing Churchill's black dog to life. He's always there, stinking up the place, chewing on table legs and making a huge, messy nuisance of himself. As strong as he is, the humans he chooses (some of them) have options. Not all are destined to 'consent to the descent.'
Allegorical fantasy told with dark humor and containing a sharp golden heart. Parliamentary librarian, Esther Hammerhans, put an ad in the newspaper for a renter. She wanted company, someone to help divert her attention from the looming date of her husbands suicide two years before. What she got was a massive black dog that calls himself Mr. Chartwell. He has business in the city and needs a room to be close to his clientWinston Churchill. Black Pat also has business with Esther, but she does
From BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:Set across five days in July 1964 we follow the bizarrely intertwined lives of Sir Winston Churchill, Esther Hammerhans and the unwelcome visitor they both share.Episode 1/10 July 1964: The lives of Winston Churchill and Esther, a library clerk, become intertwined.Episode 2/10:July 1964, and the day looms when Winston Churchill must leave Parliament. Meanwhile Esther, a library clerk, has her own black date in the diary. She also has an unusual visitor.Episode
Mr Chartwell centres around a single idea, though it's admittedly quite a striking one: based on Winston Churchill's famous description of his depression as 'the black dog', it imagines the physical incarnation of depression as an actual, huge, walking (occasionally on hind legs) and talking, black dog, the Mr Chartwell of the title. We see how the presence of the dog - Black Pat, as he decides to call himself - affects two characters; Churchill himself, facing the official end of his
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