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The comforts and terrors of middle-class provincial life have seldom been more sharply dissected than by Stanley Middleton, and his new novel adds to this social insight a new poignancy. As ageing slowly entwines John Stone, retired headmaster at Beechnall, his wife Peg and their various friends and relatives, and as past certainties recede, the solid, decent world of provincial life with its satisfactions and occasional minor adulteries gives way to new threats - some external, in the changing society around them, some internal. The question of how to live the good life, always near the centre of Middleton's novels, confronts the inhabitants of this quiet street of Victorian villas and is answered in surprising and disturbing ways.
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'Stanley Middleton, once dubbed "The Chekhov of Suburbia", is to the Midlands suburb what Anne Tyler isto the Midwest picket fence. His gentle, careful writing creates an always precise and often unnerving pictureof reality.' The Times
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Stanley Middleton was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire in 1919. He published his first novel, A Short Answer, in 1958 and went on to publish 45 novels in a career spanning fifty years. He was joint winner of the Booker Prize in 1974 with Holiday. Stanley Middleton died in July 2009.
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- PublisherHutchinson
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 009179949X
- ISBN 13 9780091799496
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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Book Description 8vo. pp 232. Original publisher's black cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. From the library of the British novelist and poet Barry Cole (1936 - 2014) with his ownership signature. Barry Cole was a friend of Stanley Middleton and a champion of his work. His first novel 'A Run Across The Island', was dedicated to him and Barry Cole also contributed to the festschrift 'Stanley Middleton at Eighty'. ISBN: 009179949X Fine in fine dust jacket. Seller Inventory # C47695
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