Jane and Prudence - Couverture souple

Pym, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1480408069 ISBN 13 : 9781480408067

Editeur : Open Road Media, 2013

Synopsis

Barbara Pym affectionately skewers the charms, eccentricities, and secret yearnings of British middle-class life
Jane Cleveland and Prudence Bates were close friends at Oxford University, but now live very different lives. Forty-one-year-old Jane is married to a vicar, has a daughter she adores, and lives a very proper life in a very proper English parish. Prudence, a year shy of thirty, is self-sufficient and fiercely independent--until Jane decides her friend should be married. Jane has the perfect husband in mind for her former pupil: a widower named Fabian Driver.
But there are other women vying for Fabian's attention. And Pru is nursing her own highly inappropriate desire for her older, married, and seemingly oblivious employer, Dr. Grampian. What follows is a witty, delightful, trenchant story of manners, morals, family, and female bonding that redefines the social novel for a new generation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Pym (1913-1980) was a bestselling and award-winning English novelist. Her first book, Some Tame Gazelle (1950), launched her career as a writer beloved for her social comedies of class and manners. Pym is the only author to be named twice in a TimesLiterary Supplement list of "the most underrated novelists of the century." She produced thirteen novels, the last three published posthumously. Her 1977 novel Quartet in Autumn was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Open Road Media
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1480408069
• ISBN 13: 9781480408067
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 212
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• Personne responsable: non disponible