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This satirical novel tells the story of Maria, a thoroughly inept woman. She seems to be blessed with good fortune, but has no sense of direction and remains unmoved by people and events. Her marriage is a disaster, her parent's house burns down and when she finally seeks love, she is rejected.
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Very funny (Spectator)
Delightfully quirky (Financial Times)
Slyly parodies the cliches of most first novels (Guardian)
About the Author:
Delightfully quirky (Financial Times)
Slyly parodies the cliches of most first novels (Guardian)
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. His most recent novel is The Rain Before It Falls. He is also the author of The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, The House of Sleep, which won the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger, The Rotter's Club, winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Prize and The Closed Circle. He has also published a biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, which won the Orwell prize in 2005. He lives in London with his wife and two children.
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- PublisherRonald P Frye & Co
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0715621572
- ISBN 13 9780715621578
- BindingHardcover
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