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Quartet in autumn / Barbara Pym with an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith.

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Record Number 778186
ISBN 9781447289616 (paperback)
Author Pym, Barbara author.
Title Quartet in autumn / Barbara Pym with an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith.
Publisher/Date London : Picador, 2015.
©1977
Pagination etc. 186 pages ; 20 cm.
Series Picador classics
Contents note First published 1977 by Macmillan London.
Summary Note In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem - loneliness. With delightful humour, Pym takes us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements; and, perhaps most keenly felt, their worries about having somehow missed out on life as post-war Britain shifted around them. Deliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn shows Barbara Pym's sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. A classic from one of Britain's most loved and highly acclaimed novelists, its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life.
Subject Middle-aged persons -- Fiction
England -- Fiction
Psychological fiction.
Added Author writer of introduction. McCall Smith, Alexander, 1948-, 1948-
Shelf Location F PYM
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