Less Than Angels
Published on 1. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-84408-581-1 (ISBN)
Description
'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' Anne Tyler
Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists.
Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love triangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant.
The course of true love or academia never did run smooth.
Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists.
Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love triangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant.
The course of true love or academia never did run smooth.
Reviews / Votes
Her best [novels] are sheer delight, and all of them companionable. Quiet, paradoxical, funny and sad, they have the iron in them of permanence too -- JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER She can be seriously, hilariously funny - no other novelist has celebrated our national silliness with such exuberance -- KATE SAUNDERS I am a huge fan of Barbara Pym -- RICHARD OSMAN She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life -- ANNE TYLERMore details
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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: 196 mm
Width: 131 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
213 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84408-581-1 (9781844085811)
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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'.