An Academic Question - Couverture souple

Pym, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1603811788 ISBN 13 : 9781603811781

Editeur : Coffeetown Press, 2013

Synopsis

Caro is the wife of Dr. Alan Grimstone, a lecturer at a provincial university in a West Country town in England. She knows her circle believes that she should be doing more with her life. She is the mother of a young daughter but relieved to be able to leave the girl in the care of an au pair. Her one selfless act--reading aloud to a former missionary at a rest home--is sullied when she allows her husband to 'borrow' some of the old gentleman's papers in order to get the better of a colleague. Caro's sister is a social worker disinclined towards marriage and children, but is she happy? Despite appearances, Caro is content enough. Until she learns that that her husband Alan has a wandering eye. What is happiness? The knowledge that one is loved? Academic renown? Or is it friendship with eccentric friends and the sight of the first crocuses of spring or the Virginia creeper in autumn? Barbara Pym completed the first draft of her satirical "Academic Novel" in 1970, ten years before her death. It was first published posthumously in 1986, thanks to her friend and biographer Hazel Holt.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Barbara Pym (1913-80) was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only one was named twice (by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil): Barbara Pym. Her novels are characterized by what Anne Tyler has called "the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life."

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Coffeetown Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1603811788
• ISBN 13: 9781603811781
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 170
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• Personne responsable: non disponible