![]() ![]() Aunt Ada is not the easiest of people to deal with, and rudely dismisses Tuppence, who wanders off and has an amiable chat with another elderly lady, Mrs Lancaster. It all begins with a dutiful visit to the Sunny Ridge care home, where Tommy’s old cantankerous Aunt Ada resides. This is not to say that it lacks real merits while rather uneven and hardly one of Christie’s most elegantly executed mysteries, there’s a strong sense of cosy-yet-sinister atmosphere about the novel that I failed to appreciate first time around. ![]() I vaguely remembered reading this Tommy & Tuppence novel many years ago and not being very impressed with it, but after suffering through Postern of Fate (the undisputed low point of my Christie re-readathon) I was probably inclined to view just about any other book in a favourable light. ![]()
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If 30 days have gone by since your purchase, unfortunately we can’t offer you a refund or exchange. ![]() ![]() I have a lot of mixed thoughts about Sakai. Sakai says that white workers disproportionately make up this labor aristocracy because the many trade unions that rose out of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries excluded minorities and many of the social democratic reforms put in by the New Deal similarly sidelined blacks and hispanics in favor of white workers. Sakai goes onto demonstrate how white workers dispossed native americans of their land from Jamestown to the Trail of Tears. The basic thesis is that American labor is apart of the "labor aristocracy" (a term coined by Lenin) and is distinct from the working-class in the Global South by benefitting from the latter's super-exploitation by Northern Capital. I've heard some mixed things about it but a lot of people seem to like it. ![]() |