The Grown-ups

Informationen zum Autor Victoria Glendinning is the award-winning biographer of Elizabeth Bowen, Leonard Woolf, Anthony Trollope, Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Rebecca West and Jonathan Swift. Her novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight, were critical and commercial successes. She divides her time between London, Provence and Ireland. Klappentext A hugely readable story of sexual intrigue, vanity, nemesis and unexpected death Zusammenfassung 'There are no grown-ups.' Everyone in this wickedly entertaining novel, whatever their age, bullies or deceives or adores someone else, in the merciless playgrounds of London flats, country villages, television studios and conferences. At the centre of it all is Leo Ulm, social scientist and media guru, who magnetizes his wives, lovers and friends with his fading brilliance. He obsesses them all, including clear-eyed Clara, though she may often wish he were dead. The god of his own universe, Leo is monstrously vain and arrogant - until something happens which leaves all the women in his life in shock. Then, perhaps, Clara begins to grow up….

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Glendinning, Glendinning Victoria
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.10.2003
• EAN: 9780743232180
• ISBN: 978-0-7432-3218-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general