Quartet in Autumn - Brossura

Pym, Barbara

Brossura

ISBN 10: 000654780X ISBN 13: 9780006547808

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1994

Riassunto

Brought together by their shared office life, faded Letty, small, wiry Norman, eccentric Marcia and devout Edwin, are an unlikely group of friends, but nevertheless find themselves drawn to discuss their different dreams and plans for the future. This book was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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L'autore:

Barbara Pym, who died in 1980, spent the last years of her life in an Oxfordshire village, sharing a small cottage with her sister. Between 1950 and 1961 she published six novels. After a gap of sixteen years, publication of ‘Quartet in Autumn’ in 1977 was treated as a major literary event, as was her next novel, ‘The Sweet Dove Died’. Four more novels were published posthumously, as was ‘Civil to Strangers’, a collection of writings including one complete novel and sections of three others.

Dalla quarta di copertina:

Barbara Pym’s sensitive wit and artistry are at their most sparkling in 'quartet in Autumn'. Brought together by their shared office life, fluffily faded Letty, small, wiry Norman, enigmatically eccentric Marcia and neatly devout Edwin, are an unlikely group of friends. Apart from work, they have little in common, but nevertheless find themselves frequently drawn to discuss their very different dreams and plans for the future...

‘Quartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest work of fiction’
PAUL BAILEY, 'Evening Standard'

‘Very funny and keenly observant of the ridiculous as well as the pathetic in humanity.’
FINANCIAL TIMES

‘An alert miniaturist... her novels have a distinctive flavour, as instantly recognisable as lapsang tea.’
DAILY TELEGRAPH

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 000654780X
• ISBN 13: 9780006547808
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192