Mrs palfrey at the claremont

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Elizabeth Taylor's most famous novel, shortlisted for the 1975 Booker Prize, is published in VMC designer hardback. Cover by Celia Birtwell.

Named by the Guardian as one of 'the 100 best novels,' and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont is a humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man from a 'magnificent...writer, the missing link between Jane Austen and John Updike' (David Baddiel, Independent)

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are magnificently eccentric and endlessly curious, living off crumbs of affection and snippets of gossip. Together, upper lips stiffened, they fight off their twin enemies: boredom and the Grim Reaper.

Then one day Mrs Palfrey strikes up an unlikely friendship with an impoverished young writer, Ludo, who sees her as inspiration for his novel.

'Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s . . . Much of the reader's joy lies in the exquisite subtlety in Taylor's depiction of all the relationships, the sharp brevity of her wit, and the apparently effortless way the plot unfolds' -Robert McCrum 'the 100 best novels', Guardian

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A blackly humorous story of loneliness deception and life in old age by one of the most accomplished novelists of the twentieth century on a rainy sunday afternoon in january the recently widowed mrs palfrey moves to the claremont hotel in south kensington if it s not nice i needn t stay Uiterlijk 7 december in huis .. MEER INFO

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Hardcover

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 14 november 2013

Aantal pagina's: 208

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Elizabeth Taylor

Hoofduitgeverij: Virago Press Ltd

Originele titel: Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 132 mm

Product hoogte: 20 mm

Product lengte: 200 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 134 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 20 mm

Verpakking lengte: 205 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 324 g

EAN: 9781844089338

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