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[Tabaluga]

Yep, tricky clues, but Casandra got it right
Your turn now !

[casandra]

I shld try to be trickier then...ok, my quote (english, 20th century, with some sappy moments...)

"With a shiver of foreboding he saw his marriage becoming what most of the other marriages about him were: a dull association of material and social interests held together by ignorance on the one side and hypocrisy on the other.”

[hobglobin]

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald as a first guess and to jump in at the deep end

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 18 February 2013 - 01:10 PM, said:

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald as a first guess and to jump in at the deep end

ooh...a good guess but nope....there was nobleness and extreme sacrifice in this novel...
addendum: no killing in this story too....

Edited by casandra, 18 February 2013 - 01:16 PM.

[hobglobin]

another pure guess but much later The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe...don't remember if there was a killing or not

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 18 February 2013 - 01:29 PM, said:

another pure guess but much later The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe...don't remember if there was a killing or not

nope...think of a classic love triangle or the boring version of a ménage à trois...

[hobglobin]

Might be then The White Peacock by Lawrence but did he have such a realist resigned tone as in the quote?

[casandra]

hobglobin, on 19 February 2013 - 01:07 AM, said:

Might be then The White Peacock by Lawrence but did he have such a realist resigned tone as in the quote?

nope...next clue- woman writer.......

[hobglobin]

okay then I continue with the wild guessings:
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

[Tabaluga]

nearly 24 hours that nobody posted in this thread.... worrysome

[hobglobin]

Tabaluga, on 20 February 2013 - 09:01 AM, said:

nearly 24 hours that nobody posted in this thread.... worrysome

well we waited for your guess and I wait for information if my last guess was wrong or not

[Tabaluga]

well i have no idea

[Tabaluga]

something by Virginia Woolf ?

Edited by Tabaluga, 20 February 2013 - 09:14 AM.

[casandra]

ooops..sorry...a bit busy and distracted too....and nope, not Woolf's and yup, it's The Age of Innocence...so the almost menage a trois gave it away?

your turn again dr H...

[hobglobin]

lasted long enough anyway and yes love triangle. disenchanted view on marriage and female author, that narrows it down finally (I guess usually men write such stuff )

and here's the next:

Rick said, "Sheep get strange diseases. Or put another way, sheep get a lot of diseases but the symptoms are always the same; the sheep can't get up and there's no way to tell how serious it is, whether it's a sprained leg or the animal's dying of tetanus. That's what mine died of; tetanus."

english, 20th century, not a livestock manual or similar