The Man With The Dancing Eyes

by Sophie Dahl

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
121	1	225,356	(3.33)	3
In the golden half-light of a midsummer's evening, the sort where any kind of magic can occur, and often does, in the midst of a party held in a wild and rambling garden, stood Pierre, teetering on highly unsuitable heels, surrounded by a symphony of overripe roses. On the midsummer evening, Pierre, the daughter of a bumbling botanist and a ravishing Italian soprano, sweet and shy and gangly as a baby giraffe, meets a man with dancing eyes. Alas, in the course of their glorious affair, an indiscretion is committed and Pierre flees to New York; but forgetting her beloved proves far harder than she imagines...… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

minister, prengel90, TashaBookStuff, FlorenceSavage, Daphne_Pia, TheMooseLibrary, Kbookcollection, Bulbooke, GodsWayAU

▾Tags

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 3 mentions

▾Member reviews

I read this very short story in 15 minutes. It was sweet, naive, a little surreal and utterly slight. The illustrations are quirky and suit the story well - enabling it to be padded out to a slim hardback with few words on each page. I'm glad I paid just £1 for it in a charity shop - whence it has returned. (

)

gaskella | Mar 1, 2007 |

▾Published reviews

1 review

add a review

thingScore 25

[...] there are cute things about this volume. Not least, it is a fantastic showcase for Morris's wacky but oddly beguiling drawings. [...] Even so, couldn't someone with a sharp pencil and an ounce of publishing integrity have suggested that Dahl spend a while longer coming up with her plot? Couldn't she have fleshed out her characters just a tiny bit? Writing isn't like painting your nails or clip-clopping down a catwalk. It's supposed to be hard work.

added by Nevov | editThe Observer, Rachel Cooke (Feb 2, 2003)

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (3 possible)

▾Series and work relationships

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English

None

▾Book descriptions

In the golden half-light of a midsummer's evening, the sort where any kind of magic can occur, and often does, in the midst of a party held in a wild and rambling garden, stood Pierre, teetering on highly unsuitable heels, surrounded by a symphony of overripe roses. On the midsummer evening, Pierre, the daughter of a bumbling botanist and a ravishing Italian soprano, sweet and shy and gangly as a baby giraffe, meets a man with dancing eyes. Alas, in the course of their glorious affair, an indiscretion is committed and Pierre flees to New York; but forgetting her beloved proves far harder than she imagines...

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary