Barbara Pym: Some Tame Gazelle | Taschenbuch

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INTRODUCED BY MAVIS CHEEK

Together yet alone, the Misses Bede occupy the central crossroads of parish life. Harriet, plump, elegant and jolly, likes nothing better than to make a fuss of new curates, secure in the knowledge that Count Ricardo Bianco will propose to her yet again this year. Belinda, meanwhile, has harboured sober feelings of devotion towards Archdeacon Hoccleve for thirty years.

Then into their quiet, comfortable lives comes a famous librarian, Nathaniel Mold, and a bishop from Africa, Theodore Grote - who each takes to calling on the sisters for rather more unsettling reasons.

'Some Tame Gazelle is my personal favourite for its sparkling high comedy and its treasury of characters . . . [Pym] makes me smile, laugh out loud, consider my own foibles and fantasies, and, above all, suffer real regret when I reach the final page. Of how many authors can you honestly say that?' MAVIS CHEEK

Über den Autor

Barbara Pym (1913-1980) was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. She was educated at Huyton College, Liverpool, and St Hilda's College, Oxford, where she gained an Honours Degree in English Language and Literature. From 1958-1974, she worked as an editorial secretary at the International African Institute. Her first novel, Some Tame Gazelle, was published in 1950, and was followed by Excellent Women (1952), Jane and Prudence (1953), Less than Angels (1955), A Glass of Blessings (1958) and No Fond Return of Love (1961). During the sixties and early seventies her writing suffered a partial eclipse and, discouraged, she concentrated on her work for the Institute, from which she retired in 1974 to live in Oxfordshire. A renaissance in her fortunes came in 1977, when both Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil chose her as one of the most underrated novelists of the century. With astonishing speed, she emerged, after sixteen years of obscurity, to almost instant fame and recognition. Quartet in Autumn was published in 1977 and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The Sweet Dove Died followed in 1978, and A Few Green Leaves was published posthumously. Barbara Pym died in January 1980.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Virago Modern Classics
Inhalt:	XII 260 S.
ISBN-13:	9780349016108
ISBN-10:	0349016100
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	853897
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pym, Barbara
Hersteller:	Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press
Maße:	196 x 126 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Barbara Pym
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.06.2022
Gewicht:	0,23 kg

Artikel-ID: 120290956

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Genre:	Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	Virago Modern Classics
Inhalt:	XII 260 S.
ISBN-13:	9780349016108
ISBN-10:	0349016100
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	853897
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pym, Barbara
Hersteller:	Little, Brown Book Group Virago Press
Maße:	196 x 126 x 21 mm
Von/Mit:	Barbara Pym
Erscheinungsdatum:	02.06.2022
Gewicht:	0,23 kg