Quartet in Autumn - Hardcover

Pym, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525186654 ISBN 13: 9780525186656

Publisher: E P Dutton, 1978

Synopsis

Four elderly, single co-workers, two men and two women who have only their work and each other to live for, are forced to deal with changes brought on by the women's retirement

About this title

Review:

Barbara Pym's unpretentious, subtle, accomplished novels . . . are for me the finest examples of high comedy to have appeared in England during the past 75 years...spectacular (Sunday Times)

Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social behaviour (The Times)

The wit and style of a twentieth century Jane Austen (Harpers & Queen)

Very funny and keenly observant of the ridiculous as well as the pathetic in humanity (Financial Times)

A spare masterpiece of loneliness in retirement (Telegraph)

Quartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest work of fiction (Evening Standard)

An alert miniaturist ... her novels have a distinctive flavour, as instantly recognisable as lapsang tea (Daily Telegraph)

Book Description:

Combining an acute eye for the eccentricities of everyday life with her unique talent for illuminating human frailties, Barbara Pym has created a world which is both extraordinary and totally familiar

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0525186654
• ISBN 13: 9780525186656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218