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Barbara Pym - Quartet in Autumn, E-bok

E-bok, Engelska, 2015

Quartet in Autumn

A funny, poignant and hopeful story of human connection

Av Barbara Pym

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Darkly funny and full of stubborn optimism, Quartet in Autumn is a classic. Showing Barbara Pym at her very best, it portrays the strange and wonderful quirks of everyday life.In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem – loneliness.Lovingly and with delightful humour, Barbara Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and – perhaps most keenly felt – their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them.‘Spectacular’ – The Sunday Times‘Quartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest work of fiction’ – Evening Standard‘Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social behaviour’ – The TimesPart of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2015-10-08
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Filformat: EPUB
  • Kopieringsskydd: LCP
  • ISBN: 9781447289623
  • Förlag: Pan Macmillan
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 1977 (UK)
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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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Barbara Pym's unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels ... are for me the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past 75 years...spectacular Sunday Times Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social behaviour The Times The wit and style of a twentieth century Jane Austen Harpers & Queen Very funny and keenly observant of the ridiculous as well as the pathetic in humanity Financial Times A spare masterpiece of loneliness in retirement Telegraph Quartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest work of fiction Evening Standard An alert miniaturist ... her novels have a distinctive flavour, as instantly recognisable as lapsang tea Daily Telegraph

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