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- Condition
- New
- Dimensions
- 5.7 x 0.98 x 8.6 in
- Weight
- 12.8 oz
- Publisher
- Pantheon
- Publication date
- August 13, 2024
- Language
- English
- Print length
- 240 pages
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ONE OF THE ATLANTIC'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • DAKOTA JOHNSON’S TEATIME PICTURES SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK ● From a fiercely talented writer poised to be a new generation’s Rachel Cusk or Deborah Levy, a novel set between the London stage and Sicily, about a daughter who turns her novelist father’s fall from grace into a play, and a father who increasingly fears his precocious daughter’s voice. “A sharp book, beautifully written.” —Rumaan Alam, author of Leave the World Behind and Entitlement "Excellent...I enjoyed the novel hugely...Like Edward St Aubyn and Anne Enright, Hamya is so good on generational conflict, the friction of family, and the damage done by charming but complacent men. But The Hypocrite is a strikingly original book too. I tore through it, shoulders clenched but full of admiration." —David Nicholls, author of One Day, in Electric Literature August 2020. Sophia, a young playwright, awaits her father’s verdict on her new show. A famous author whose novels haven’t aged as gracefully into the modern era as he might have hoped, he is completely unaware that the play centers around a vacation the two took years earlier to an island off Sicily, where he dictated to her a new book. Sophia’s play has been met with rave reviews, but her father has studiously avoided reading any of them. When the house lights dim however, he understands that his daughter has laid him bare, has used the events of their summer to create an incisive, witty, skewering critique of the attitudes and sexual mores of the men of his generation. Set through one staging of the play, The Hypocrite seamlessly and scorchingly shifts time and perspective, illuminating an argument between a father and his daughter that, with impeccable nuance, examines the fraught inheritances each generation is left to contend with and the struggle to nurture empathy in a world changing at lightning-speed. Read more
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| Publisher | Pantheon |
|---|---|
| Publication date | August 13, 2024 |
| Language | English |
| Print length | 240 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0593701038 |
| ISBN-13 | 34 |
| Item Weight | 12.8 ounces |
| Dimensions | 5.7 x 0.98 x 8.6 inches |
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Western Culture manufactures unhappy women
Format: Kindle
The book is well written and a compelling about a trio of unlikeable people. However, the daughter, and accomplished playwright is brimming with the psychological traits of the dark triad, especially emotional Machiavellianism. She’s vengeful, but pretends her desire to humiliate others is part of some superior progressive morality. In the end, you discover she’s just a neurotic affluent girl who’s mad that the world doesn’t conform to her narcissism and neuroticism. If her father is an unreflective misogynist, she fails to realize she’s a deliberate misandrist with “daddy issues.” Whether it was the author’s intention or not, I found myself rooting for rakish Dad, who is destroyed by his daughter. Not because he’s a great guy, but the neuroticism and self-manufactured emotionally fragility and meanness of his daughter, an accomplished playwright, is grating. She’s a typical affluent female type, who doesn’t seem to realize her moral fervor is just as much an expression of narcissism as her father’s devotion to his writerly prestige and womanizing. If she does realize it, the humiliation she visits upon her father, is all the worse because it’s mean and vengeful. Her father’s failings, at least, are inadvertent, because he seems to lack self-reflection, but does possess the adult capacity to apologize when he comes to certain emotional realizations. Ultimately, the daughter is a mean girl venting her emotional incontinence on both her parents for not living up to her fragile, absurd standards. The daughter speaks of “trauma.” And here’s the thing, the trauma she is brooding over is not a trauma at all. It’s all adopted performative, socially acceptable virtue signaling. It’s just the normal stuff of life that we experience, with imperfections of the people we love and their ours too. What is it about contemporary life that makes it impossible for us to live with the normal imperfections of people, especially those we love? Why is it such a punitive spirit toward the blind spots, imperfections and failures we all experience become such a dominant spirit between generations? I’d prefer the company of a selfish rake, with some relationship to the real world, to that an emotionally fragile mean girl any day of the week. Especially when that mean girl chose to wound her own family in service of her narcissism and neuroticism, pretending it was enlightened morality to wield the knife against her loved ones, whatever their failings.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2024 by Phillip W. De Vous
A Character Study without Great Characters
Format: Hardcover
I heard about this novel and thought it a clever set-up: a young woman invites her famous writer father to see a production of her first play. In it she has recreated a summer vacation she had taken with her father to an Italian island. Not surprisingly, their individual memories of that summer are quite different. The bulk of this short novel shifts between two scenes—Sophia’s father sitting in the audience watching the play and Sophia and her mother sitting in a rooftop restaurant having lunch while this matinee goes on. Mother and daughter discuss and bicker over their relationships with Sophia’s father. (Though his long-time ex-wife, the mother has been staying with Sophia’s father during the COVID lockdown.) Sophia’s father tries to contain his upset and embarrassment as he watches the show and compares it to his memories. I struggle a bit to understand which character suffers the most here. Clearly Sophia, as the only named character here, is the one whose long-term bitterness over this summer where she felt abandoned and ignored drives the story. This is reflected darkly in her mother who gets drunk and behaves poorly over the course of the lunch in her own bitterness. Sophia’s father, on the other hand, comes across as completely oblivious to what drives the women in his life, all of who seem on the periphery, until watching this play stirs him to an awareness, if not an understanding. In the end, if an enjoyable read, I came away from this story feeling that it doesn’t have the heft of a novel that is going to stay with me. All the characters seem too self-involved to reach any new insights about themselves, creating a change that might have left me something on which to reflect later. I like character studies, which, in the main, this is, but none of the characters here ultimately resonated with me. I didn’t understand them much, and I ended up indifferent to them and their feelings. Not something I want from a novel like this.
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Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2024 by Timothy Haugh
Uncomfortably fabulous
Format: Kindle
Too close to home for the young and the old alike. How sharper than serpents tooth the thankless child and the self~absorbed parent!
Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2025 by Brigit Binns
family dysfunction finely wrought
Format: Kindle
People are rarely able to see how their behaviors are likely to wound their children and when faced with it the impact is destabilizing. This author uses her ability to write beautifully to demonstrate how people hurt each other
Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2024 by Alison Grant
interesting and well written
Format: Kindle
Interesting setup, playwright and her first play performed before her imperfect father, target character of the performance, a novelist distant from his daughter. Though very well-written, for me the idea never fully took off. Plus the quiet ending seemed a bit too Pat. I’d give it a 3.5 if I could, but I can’t.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2025 by C THOMPSON JR
Too wordy
Format: Audiobook
The book is so uneventful. It is so unnecessarily wordy. For example, they even list all the items calories and prices of menu items when somebody orders at a restaurant.
Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2024 by cyn
Literary fiction at its best.....
Format: Kindle
First off, my belated thanks to Knopf/Pantheon and NetGalley for an e-ARC of this book. Literary fiction at its best. Yes, it is not an easy book to read, and it takes a bit to garner enough information to understand what is happening from the very beginning. Scenes change quickly, some times leaving the reader hanging from the last one. Dialog is play-like, fraught with hidden meanings, and non-linear. Theatre, London, '90's Brit male writers, Gen Z, father issues, the family - they F you up, Sicily, COVID. And a nice twist on every Brit book ever written about the English love/hate relationship with Italians (they're the salt of the earth and imbued with soul, but also vulgar, uneducated and misogynist - think Forster). The coda from the POV of the housekeeper brings it all together so well. The first time we get a look at the family from outside the 3 members here. They are messy, inconsiderate people. In the end no one is all right or all wrong - as in real life, we're each a mixture of both within all of us. Looking forward to reading her first novel, although I think it is much different, and not as technically complex, as this one. Rather a break through for her - and looking forward to her next book. 5 out of 5. Odd that it is getting low ratings on Goodreads and Amazon - I suspect because it is not an easy read, and does not give broad all-inclusive answers. Also a bit odd that some celebrity chose this for their reading club - for the same reasons as I just mentioned in the sentence above.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 2024 by roundheadslovene
Exqusite, lyrical writing
Format: Hardcover
I was intrigued by the premise of this book: a woman invites her father to see a play she has written. He is an aging novelist, once considered au courant, dashing, intelligent. But that was a few decades ago, & the literary world today is not so enamored of his particular brand of unexamined casual misogyny. Which the play lays bare for all to see. I read Jo Hamya's previous book, Three Rooms, & I think this is an improvement. My issue with Three Rooms was its general plotlessness, though the writing was quite lovely & several images it evoked have stayed with me. I'm happy to say that the writing in The Hypocite is even BETTER, & the story stays tight on the father's experience of the play, flashbacks to the Sicilian vacation it was based upon, & Sophia's (the playwright) get-togethers with her parents after the play's debut. I can't overstate how much I enjoyed the writing itself. It was lyrical & elegant, almost like reading a poem, but it was never showy. Every word worked in service of the story. This made the book an incredibly fast read, even though the action, such as it is, is not exactly pulse-punding or full of gotcha moments. This is very much a literary fiction book: a study of characters & their relationships. I personally would have preferred just a little more meat on the plot, but the writing was exquisite. Thank you to NetGalley & the publisher for the ARC!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2024 by ciara xyerra