Quartet in Autumn
One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning.In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly and with delightful humour, Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and - perhaps most keenly felt - their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. A classic from one of Brita…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, Alexander McCall (Einf.)
- ISBN: 978-1-4472-8961-6
- EAN: 9781447289616
- Produktnummer: 17515147
- Verlag: Pan macmillan Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.3 cm 178 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 35
- Gewicht: 178
- Sonstiges: Ab 18 J.
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A writer from the age of sixteen, Barbara Pym has been acclaimed as 'the most underrated writer of the century' (Philip Larkin). Pym's substantial reputation evolved through the publication of six novels from 1950 to 1961, then resumed in 1977 with the publication of Quartet in Autumn and three other novels. She died in 1980.
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