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The Way Out of Berkeley Square

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Informationen zum Autor Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a colourful figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms and Iliad of Broken Sentences , and six novels, from Opium Fogs to The Halt During the Chase . Tonks wrote for the Observer , The Times , New York Review of Books , Listener , New Statesman and Encounter , and presented poetry programmes for the BBC. Klappentext Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of woman''s desperate quest for freedom. ''I''m thirty, and I''m stuck'' Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. A spiky, self-conscious love affair begins, complete with awful dinner dates, devastating kisses and agonising introspection. Can Arabella realise what she wants? Can she escape the trap of being sexy, good and likable? Back in print after many decades, this is an outstanding novel by an extraordinary and little-known writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks. ''Salted with wit and peppered with clever images'' Guardian 'Writing like this...is far too beautiful and accomplished to be kept off the shelf. It catches like nothing else the smogs, the rodentine genes, the murky post-War grays, the lurking sexual violence of London' Michael Hoffman, Poetry Foundation Zusammenfassung Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of woman's desperate quest for freedom. 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck' Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. A spiky, self-conscious love affair begins, complete with awful dinner dates, devastating kisses and agonising introspection. Can Arabella realise what she wants? Can she escape the trap of being sexy, good and likable? Back in print after many decades, this is an outstanding novel by an extraordinary and little-known writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks. 'Salted with wit and peppered with clever images' Guardian ‘Writing like this…is far too beautiful and accomplished to be kept off the shelf. It catches like nothing else the smogs, the rodentine genes, the murky post-War grays, the lurking sexual violence of London’ Michael Hoffman, Poetry Foundation ...

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Authors Rosemary Tonks, Tonks Rosemary
Publisher Vintage UK
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 02.05.2024
 
EAN 9781784879310
ISBN 978-1-78487-931-0
No. of pages 208
Dimensions 128 mm x 199 mm x 13 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

London, Greater London, FICTION / Romance / General, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1960 to c 1969, classic; literary fiction; good books; novels; popular books

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