Quartet in Autumn
«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
'No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure' Jilly Cooper Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Picador
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 208
- ISBN
- 9781447289616
- Utgivelsesår
- 2015
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 1977 UK.
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«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
«No novelist brings more telling observation or more gentle pleasure.»
Jilly Cooper