Middleton, Stanley Brief Garlands ISBN 13: 9781843957201

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As aging 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 provinical 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 confronts the inhabitants of a 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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