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An Academic Question (Paperback): Barbara Pym

An Academic Question (Paperback)

Barbara Pym

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Caro is the wife of Dr. Alan Grimstone, a lecturer at a provincial university in a West Country town in England. She knows her circle believes that she should be doing more with her life. She is the mother of a young daughter but relieved to be able to leave the girl in the care of an au pair. Her one selfless act--reading aloud to a former missionary at a rest home--is sullied when she allows her husband to 'borrow' some of the old gentleman's papers in order to get the better of a colleague. Caro's sister is a social worker disinclined towards marriage and children, but is she happy? Despite appearances, Caro is content enough. Until she learns that that her husband Alan has a wandering eye. What is happiness? The knowledge that one is loved? Academic renown? Or is it friendship with eccentric friends and the sight of the first crocuses of spring or the Virginia creeper in autumn? Barbara Pym completed the first draft of her satirical "Academic Novel" in 1970, ten years before her death. It was first published posthumously in 1986, thanks to her friend and biographer Hazel Holt.

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Imprint: Coffeetown Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: May 2013
First published: May 2013
Authors: Barbara Pym
Dimensions: 203 x 127 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 978-1-60381-178-1
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN: 1-60381-178-8
Barcode: 9781603811781

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