Less Than Angels

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Pym, Introduction by Salley Vickers Klappentext INTRODUCED BY SALLEY VICKERS 'Her best [novels] are sheer delight, and all of them companionable. Quiet, paradoxical, funny and sad, they have the iron in them of permanence too' JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love tangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant. The course of true love or academia never did run smooth. 'She can be seriously, hilariously funny - no other novelist has celebrated our national silliness with such exuberance' KATE SAUNDERS 'I am a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN Vorwort 'A modern Jane Austen' Alexander McCall Smith Zusammenfassung 'A modern Jane Austen' Alexander McCall Smith

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Pym
• Assisted by: Salley Vickers (Introduction)
• Publisher: Virago Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2022
• EAN: 9780349016115
• ISBN: 978-0-349-01611-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Virago Modern Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, Humorous fiction