The Sea Lady: A Late Romance - Softcover

Drabble, Dame Margaret

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156034263 ISBN 13: 9780156034265

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2011-12-1 Pages: 345 Publisher:. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together aschildren in Ornemouth. a town by the gray North Sea Now. as theyjourney back to receive honorary degrees from a new universitythere - Humphrey on the train. Ailsa flying - they take stock oftheir lives. their careers. and their shared personalentanglements. romantic and otherwise Humphrey is a successfulmarine biologist. happiest under water. but now retired;. Ailsa. scholar and feminist . is celebrated for her pioneering studies ofgender. Their mutual pasts unfold in an exquisite portrait ofEnglish social life in the latter half of the twentiethcentury.

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Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. Now, as they journey back to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying--they take stock of their lives, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements, romantic and otherwise. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender. Their mutual pasts unfold in an exquisite portrait of English social life in the latter half of the twentieth century.

Review:

PRAISE FOR THE SEA LADY

"[A] tour de force . . . With lyrical originality Drabble captures the idealistic, eternally self-absorbed paradoxes of the aging baby-boom generation. The result, like its contradictory protagonists, is as sensual as a moonlit beach, as bracing as an offshore wind."--People (4 stars)

"A thoroughly enchanting blend of scientific erudition, social satire and domestic comedy from a novelist who continues to surprise us."--Ron Charles, The Washington Post Book World

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0156034263
• ISBN 13: 9780156034265
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368