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PACK OF CARDS
de Lively, Penelope
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good in good dust jacket (prev owner's name, mostly hidden by dj flap.)/good
- ISBN 10
- 0802111564
- ISBN 13
- 9780802111562
- Librería
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Sobre este artículo
New York:: Grove Press,, (1989.). Hardcover first edition -. Good in good dust jacket (prev owner's name, mostly hidden by dj flap.). First US printing. Highly praised collection of short stories by this Booker Prize winning author.
Sinopsis
Though Lively (Moon Tiger; Perfect Happiness) can be satirical, even wicked, these 36 stories (two earlier collections from England plus assorted recent stories, some published in US magazines) are mostly gentle, affectionate portraits of English men and women who muddle through. While there's a host of types and situations here, most center on village streets, petty bourgeoisie society, and academia. In truth, when a character in "Venice, Now and Then" says that "Things are so inconstant. That's the trouble," she could be speaking for most of her fictional cohorts: an aging English lady with insomnia ("The Voice of God in Adelaide Terrace"); a befuddled housewife whose "treasure" of a maid turns out to be a domineering sneak-thief ("Help"); and a professor suffering through the small humiliations of academia ("Revenant as Typewriter"), among many others. In addition to "Help," other notables include: "Nothing Missing but the Samovar," about a German Anglophile who spends a touching season with a sympathetically drawn family of shabbygenteel aristocrats at the end of their economic tether; "Corruption," a delicately textured portrait involving an aging judge, his wife, a female interloper, and a box of confiscated pornography; "The Pill Box," very short and a little metafictional ("How, having glimpsed the possibility of the impossible, can the world remain as steady as you had supposed?"); and" The Dream Merchant," a whimsical portrait of a sensible man who sells dreams from 9:30-5:00 but doesn't believe in them: "that was the secret of his success." Occasionally cloying or thin, but mostly solid work, full of character, incident, and elegiac charm. (Kirkus Reviews)
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 30794
- Título
- PACK OF CARDS
- Autor
- Lively, Penelope
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good in good dust jacket (prev owner's name, mostly hidden by dj flap.)
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- good
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0802111564
- ISBN 13
- 9780802111562
- Editorial
- Grove Press,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- (1989.)
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Women Authors;
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