A Little Tea, A Little Chat

Virago Modern Classics, London, 1981. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. First impression. Size: Small Octavo. 394 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Pages are lightly toned throughout. Edges browned slightly. In fine unread condition. The book is available and will be PACKAGED professionally, DISPATCHED promptly and a TRACKING NUMBER will be advised by Australia Post.. Living on the seamier side of New York in 1941, Robert Grant is a middle-aged man to whom life is a game in which he makes his own rules. This is no more evident than in the pursuit of his only hobby: the search for, seduction and betrayal of women. His targets are always 'easy', the cheaper the better. He is constantly on the lookout for a new face, a new phone number, 'a little tea, a little chat'. While Grant gets a certain thrill from his intrigues, he receives little pleasure - and gives none, until he meets Barbara, the 'blondine', a large, goodlooking but sluttish woman of thirty-two. In Barbara, he meets his match. First published in 1948, A Little Tea, A Little Chat provides an irresistible, sardonic commentary on men and women on the make whose sexual appetites wickedly mirror the materialism of wartime America. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; United States; 1940s; Literature & Literary. ISBN: 0860681769. ISBN/EAN: 9780860681762. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10411. . 9780860681762