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Civil To Strangers

Civil To Strangers

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This volume includes an early novel and three novellas, which were discovered and published after Barbara Pym's death in 1980.

INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT

''I''m a huge fan of Barbara Pym'' Richard Osman

''I''d sooner read a new Barbara Pym th...

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Product ID:	9780349016146
Product Form:	Paperback / softback
Country of Manufacture:	GB
Series:	Virago Modern Classics
Title:	Civil To Strangers
Authors:	Author: Barbara Pym
Page Count:	400
Subjects:	Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Description:	Select Guide Rating This volume includes an early novel and three novellas, which were discovered and published after Barbara Pym's death in 1980. INTRODUCED BY HAZEL HOLT ''I''m a huge fan of Barbara Pym'' Richard Osman ''I''d sooner read a new Barbara Pym than a new Jane Austen'' Philip Larkin When Barbara Pym died in 1980, she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, Civil to Strangers, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, ''Finding a Voice'', Pym''s only written comment on her writing career. In Civil to Strangers, the lives of a young couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband Adam, are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village. ''A sublime social comedy . . . It exists inside the Pym Eden of safety, silliness and a kind of subdued hilarity. Look out for one of her best curates - the starchy, spinster-dodging Mr Paladin - and a typically deliciously insensitive vicar'' KATE SAUNDERS, THE TIMES ''Brilliant, hilarious, poignant and so very, very English'' TIME
Imprint Name:	Virago Press Ltd
Publisher Name:	Little, Brown Book Group
Country of Publication:	GB
Publishing Date:	2022-06-02

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Weight	314 g
Dimensions	127 × 196 × 33 mm