A Stairway to Paradise - Hardcover

St John, Madeleine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786706627 ISBN 13: 9780786706624

Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group, 1999

Synopsis

Follows the tangled relationship between Alex, a successful Fleet Street journalist, his friend Andrew, an amiable academic recently divorced and returning from the United States, and the enigmatic Barbara

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Review:

'A moral comedy as well as a social one. St John allows dialogue to speak for itself, and she renders it excellently.' Helen Dunmore, The Times 'Madeleine St John is brilliant on the elliptical way lovers talk to each other.' -- Daily Telegraph

From the Back Cover:

Madeleine St John's poignant and characteristically witty new novel tells the story of three people locked in an unhappy kaleidoscope of emotions and desires, none able to articulate the precise quality of their longing and dissatisfaction. There's Alex, miserable in his cold and calmly professional marriage, unable to leave because of his two children. Next comes Andrew, recently home from ten years in America, leaving an ex-wife and a beloved daughter on the other side of the world. And finally, there's Barbara, the enchanting and lustrous object of their affections, formidably self-possessed but strangely aimless and unfulfilled.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avalon Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0786706627
• ISBN 13: 9780786706624
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 185