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Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont
- A Virago Modern Classic
Engelsk Hardback
Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont
- A Virago Modern Classic
Engelsk Hardback

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Named by the Guardian as one of ''the 100 best novels,'' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont is a humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man from a ''magnificent...writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike'' (David Baddiel, Independent)

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper.

Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel.

''Elizabeth Taylor''s exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s . . . Much of the reader''s joy lies in the exquisite subtlety in Taylor''s depiction of all the relationships, the sharp brevity of her wit, and the apparently effortless way the plot unfolds'' -Robert McCrum ''the 100 best novels'', Guardian







Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
208
ISBN-13:
9781844089338
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1844089339
Udg. Dato:
14 nov 2013
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
129mm
Højde:
204mm
Forlag:
Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato:
14 nov 2013
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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