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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym (Paperback)
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The Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym (Paperback)
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‘Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously’ JILLY
COOPER Picked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian,
The Times and the Observer A Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021
Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the
late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic
life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the
era’s own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the
life of this English writer – one of the greatest chroniclers of
the human heart – so defined by rejection, both in her writing
and in love? Pym lived through extraordinary times. She attended
Oxford in the thirties when women were the minority. She spent time
in Nazi Germany, falling for a man who was close to Hitler. She
made a career on the Home Front as a single working girl in
London’s bedsit land. Through all of this, she wrote. Diaries,
notes, letters, stories and more than a dozen novels – which as
Byrne shows more often than not reflected the themes of Pym’s own
experience: worlds of spinster sisters and academics in unrequited
love, of powerful intimacies that pulled together seemingly humble
lives. Paula Byrne’s new biography is the first to make full use
of Barbara Pym’s archive. Brimming with new extracts from Pym’s
diaries, letters and novels, this book is a joyous introduction to
a woman who was herself the very best of company. Byrne brings
Barbara Pym back to centre stage as one of the great English
novelists: a generous, shrewdly perceptive writer and a brave
woman, who only in the last years of her life was suddenly,
resoundingly recognised for her genius.
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Imprint: |
William Collins Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2022 |
Authors: |
Paula Byrne
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 44mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
704 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-00-832224-3 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-00-832224-4 |
Barcode: |
9780008322243 |
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