Quartet in Autumn
Barbara Pym
ISBN: | 9780745119519 |
Publisher: | Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C |
Published: | 1 September, 1993 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Links | Australian Libraries (Trove) |
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Quartet in Autumn
Barbara Pym
Quartet in Autumn is one of the books Pym wrote during the 15 years when no one would publish her, and perhaps the same kind of balance between hopelessness and inner strength helped shape this novel's story about four friends in an office nearing the age of retirement. They are people who have lived unspectacularly, but who have conjured a sense of themselves from the quartet's unity. Things start to change when two of them retire. Pym maps this ordinary strangeness of life with her particular genius for brilliant psychological insight and quiet humor that never strains for effect.
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