Excellent Women Barbara Pym

Excellent Women

Author: Barbara Pym
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Book Title
Excellent Women
Author
Barbara Pym
ISBN
9780143104872
"The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those "excellent women," the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors--anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door--the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires. Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Barbara PymPublisher: Penguin GroupPublished: 01/01/2007ISBN: 9780143104872Pages: 231Weight: 0.40lbsSize: 7.66h x 5.14w x 0.47d

"The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen

One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those "excellent women," the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors--anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door--the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 01/01/2007
ISBN: 9780143104872
Pages: 231
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.14w x 0.47d

"The finest introduction to Barbara Pym" (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen

One of Barbara Pym's richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergyman's daughter and a mild-mannered spinster in 1950s England. She is one of those "excellent women," the smart, supportive, repressed women who men take for granted. As Mildred gets embroiled in the lives of her new neighbors--anthropologist Helena Napier and her handsome, dashing husband, Rocky, and Julian Malory, the vicar next door--the novel presents a series of snapshots of human life as actually, and pluckily, lived in a vanishing world of manners and repressed desires.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Barbara Pym
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 01/01/2007
ISBN: 9780143104872
Pages: 231
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.66h x 5.14w x 0.47d