Less Than Angels: A Novel - Couverture souple

Pym, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1480408077 ISBN 13 : 9781480408074

Editeur : Open Road Integrated Media, Inc., 2013

Synopsis

This classic novel holds the mirror up to human nature and the battle between the sexes as it explores the love lives of a group of anthropologists
Catherine Oliphant writes for women's magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallow--although she's starting to wonder if they'll ever get married. Then Tom drops his bombshell: He's leaving her for nineteen-year-old student Deirdre Swan. Though stunned by Tom's betrayal, Catherine quickly becomes fascinated by another anthropologist, Alaric Lydgate, a reclusive eccentric recently returned from Africa. As Catherine starts to weigh her options she gradually realizes who she is and what she really wants. With its lively cast of characters, Less Than Angels is an incisive social satire that opens a window onto the insular world of academia. It's also a poignant and playful riff on the messy mating habits of humans and the traits that separate us from our anthropological forebears--far fewer than we may imagine.

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 Integrated Media, Inc.
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1480408077
• ISBN 13: 9781480408074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 234
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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