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Excellent Women: 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman de Barbara Pym

Excellent Women: 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' Richard Osman: VMC

Autor Barbara Pym Introducere de Alexander McCall Smith
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 3 iul 2008


Excellent Women is one of Barbara Pym’s richest and most amusing high comedies. Mildred Lathbury is a clergyman’s daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those “excellent women,” the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors—anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door—the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.

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ISBN-13: 9781844085262
ISBN-10: 1844085260
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 201 x 138 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: Little Brown
Colecția Virago
Seriile VMC, Virago Modern Classics

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Recenzii

I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym
I pick up her books with joy, as though I were meeting an old, dear friend who comforts me, extends my vision and makes me roar with laughter
One of the finest examples of high comedy
Why shouldn't the lives of cardigan-wearing spinsters and fussy confirmed bachelors be the engines of some of the finest comic writing in English? Not only was Pym a comic genius but she was ever so wise
I don't think I've ever before recommended a novel as one that everybody will enjoy and yet - even with a certain assurance - I'm prepared to vouch for Excellent Women
Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life
One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century

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INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH

'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN

Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the great moments of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sale, the garden fête spoilt by bad weather'. Her glamorous new neighbours, the Napiers, seem to be facing a marital crisis. One cannot take sides in these matters, though it is tricky, especially as Mildred has a soft spot for dashing young Rockingham Napier. This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest and most touching.

'One of the most endearingly amusing English novels of the twentieth century' ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

'Barbara Pym is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER

'Not only was Pym a comic genius but she was ever so wise' THE TIMES

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Barbara Pym