Civil To Strangers
Published on 7. July 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-84408-722-8 (ISBN)
Description
When Barbara Pym died in 1980 she left a considerable amount of unpublished material. This volume contains an early novel, CIVIL TO STRANGERS, three novellas and an autobiographical essay, 'Finding a Voice', Pym's only written comment on her writing career. In CIVIL TO STRANGERS the lives of a young couple, Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon and her self-absorbed writer husband Adam, are thrown into upheaval when a mysterious Hungarian arrives in their village.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Little, Brown Book Group
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
310 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84408-722-8 (9781844087228)
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Barbara Pym (1913-80) was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only one was named twice (by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil): Barbara Pym. Her novels are characterised by what Anne Tyler has called 'the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life'.