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Pym, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0349016135 ISBN 13 : 9780349016139

Editeur : Virago, 2022

Synopsis

Genteel North Oxford is riven by gossip and scandal in Barbara Pym's exquisitely entertaining comedy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Pym (1913-1980) was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. She was educated at Huyton College, Liverpool, and St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she gained an Honours Degree in English Language and Literature. From 1958-1974, she worked as an editorial secretary at the International African Institute. Her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, was published in 1950, and was followed by Excellent Women (1952), Jane and Prudence (1953), Less than Angels (1955), A Glass of Blessings (1958) and No Fond Return of Love (1961). During the sixties and early seventies her writing suffered a partial eclipse and, discouraged, she concentrated on her work for the Institute, from which she retired in 1974 to live in Oxfordshire. A renaissance in her fortunes came in 1977, when both Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil chose her as one of the most underrated novelists of the century. With astonishing speed, she emerged, after sixteen years of obscurity, to almost instant fame and recognition. Quartet in Autumn was published in 1977 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Sweet Dove Died followed in 1978, and A Few Green Leaves was published posthumously. Barbara Pym died in January 1980.

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INTRODUCED BY LOUIS DE BERNIÈRES

'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER

'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER

Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North Oxford. Anthea, her great-niece, is in love with a dashing undergraduate with political ambitions. Of this, Miss Doggett thoroughly approves. However, Anthea's father, an Oxford don, is carrying on in the most unseemly fashion with a student - they have been spotted together at the British museum! But the only liaison Miss Doggett isn't aware of is taking place under her very own roof: the lodger has proposed to her paid companion Miss Morrow. She wouldn't approve of that at all.

'Brilliant, hilarious and so very, very English' DAILY MAIL

'I'd sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen' PHILIP LARKIN

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Virago
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0349016135
• ISBN 13: 9780349016139
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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