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Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.
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" [Maugham] is a master for creating the appetite for information, of withholding it until the right moment, and then providing it surprisingly." --Evelyn Waugh
" Maugham is a catty delight." --"The Boston Globe"
"[Maugham] is a master for creating the appetite for information, of withholding it until the right moment, and then providing it surprisingly." --Evelyn Waugh
"Maugham is a catty delight." --"The Boston Globe"
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Stunningly rejacked as part of a major reinvention of this neglected 20th century master
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0140006516
- ISBN 13 9780140006513
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages208
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