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Barbara Pym

Quartet in Autumn

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Shortlisted for the 1977 Booker PrizeThis is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly, poignantly, satirically and with much humour, Pym conducts us through their small lives and the facade they erect to defend themselves against the outside world. There is nevertheless an obstinate optimism in her characters, allowing them in their different ways to win through to a kind of hope. Barbara Pym's sensitive wit and artistry are at their most sparkling in Quartet in Autumn.An exquisite, e… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-452-26934-7
  • EAN: 9780452269347
  • Produktnummer: 19337548
  • Verlag: Random House N.Y.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
  • Seitenangabe: 224 S.
  • Masse: H19.0 cm x B13.1 cm x D0.9 cm 176 g
  • Gewicht: 176

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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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