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Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont

- A Virago Modern Classic
Af: Elizabeth Taylor Engelsk Paperback

Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont

- A Virago Modern Classic
Af: Elizabeth Taylor Engelsk Paperback
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''Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece'' - Robert McCrum, Guardian, ''The Best 100 Novels''
''An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth'' - SARAH WATERS
''Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all'' ANNE TYLER

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

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''Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece'' - Robert McCrum, Guardian, ''The Best 100 Novels''
''An author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth'' - SARAH WATERS
''Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Elizabath Bowen - soul-sisters all'' ANNE TYLER

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

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9781844083213
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1844083217
Udg. Dato: 6 apr 2006
Længde: 15mm
Bredde: 129mm
Højde: 196mm
Forlag: Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato: 6 apr 2006
Forfatter(e): Elizabeth Taylor
Forfatter(e) Elizabeth Taylor


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781844083213


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 208


Udgave


Længde 15mm


Bredde 129mm


Højde 196mm


Udg. Dato 6 apr 2006


Oplagsdato 6 apr 2006


Forlag Little, Brown Book Group

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