A Few Green Leaves - Softcover

Pym, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1447236874 ISBN 13: 9781447236870

Publisher: Bello, 2013

Synopsis

Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her heroine is Emma Howick, anthropologist. Through her eyes Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and individual style the quiet revolution in English village life, combining the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's acclaimed writing career.

'I could go on reading her for ever' A L Rowse, Punch

'A vivid sense of how we live now' New Statesman

'Her sense of brilliant comedy is a direct inheritance from Jane Austen' Hibernia

'A beautifully written, very delicate comedy' Times Literary Supplement

About this title

Book Description:

From the author of Jane and Prudence, and Excellent Women

About the Author:

A writer from the age of sixteen, Barbara Pym has been acclaimed as 'the most underrated writer of the century' (Philip Larkin). Pym's substantial reputation evolved through the publication of six novels from 1950 to 1961, then resumed in 1977 with the publication of Quartet in Autumn and three other novels. She died in 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bello
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1447236874
• ISBN 13: 9781447236870
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208