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| Author | : Barbara Comyns |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 225 |
| Release | : 2015-11-10 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590178971 |
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“I told Helen my story and she went home and cried.” So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworths. But Barbara Comyns’s beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder of her husband than she is of her pet newt; she can’t keep house (everything she cooks tastes of soap); and she mistakes morning sickness for the aftereffects of a bad batch of strawberries. England is in the middle of the Great Depression, and the money Sophia makes from the occasional modeling gig doesn’t make up for her husband’s indifference to paying the rent. Predictably, the marriage falters; not so predictably, Sophia’s artlessness will be the very thing that turns her life around.
| Author | : Barbara Comyns |
| Publisher | : Virago |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2013-07-04 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1405522313 |
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'Comyns's world is weird and wonderful . . . a neglected genius' LUCY SCHOLES, OBSERVER 'A curious hybrid: a mixture of domestic disaster, social commentary, comedy, and romance . . . ' KATHERINE A. POWERS, BARNES & NOBLE REVIEW 'I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was . . . Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else' MAGGIE O'FARRELL Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s where poverty, babies (however much loved) and husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice to her life, Sophia takes up with Peregrine, a dismal, ageing critic and comes to regret her marriage and her affair. But in this case virtue is more than its own reward, for repentance brings an abrupt end to the cycle of unsold pictures, unpaid bills and unwashed dishes . . .
| Author | : Barbara Comyns |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 156 |
| Release | : 2003-04-30 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781590170298 |
Download The Vet's Daughter Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Vet's Daughter combines shocking realism with a visionary edge. The vet lives with his bedridden wife and shy daughter Alice in a sinister London suburb. He works constantly, captive to a strange private fury, and treats his family with brutality and contempt. After his wife's death, the vet takes up with a crass, needling woman who tries to refashion Alice in her own image. And yet as Alice retreats ever deeper into a dream world, she discovers an extraordinary secret power of her own. Harrowing and haunting, like an unexpected cross between Flannery O'Connor and Stephen King, The Vet's Daughter is a story of outraged innocence that culminates in a scene of appalling triumph.
| Author | : Barbara Comyns |
| Publisher | : Virago Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2013 |
| Genre | : England |
| ISBN | : 9781844088379 |
Download Sisters by a River Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Barbara Comyns |
| Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
| Total Pages | : 193 |
| Release | : 2018-01-23 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1681371324 |
Download The Juniper Tree Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A feminist reimagining of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a single mother and an enchanted friendship—from one of most bewitching British writers of the 20th century. “Comyns’s world is weird and wonderful . . . Tragic , comic and completely bonkers all in one, I’d go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius.” —The Observer Bella Winter has hit a low. Homeless and jobless, she is the mother of a toddler by a man whose name she didn’t quite catch, and her once pretty face is disfigured by the scar she acquired in a car accident. Friendless and without family, she’s recently disentangled herself from a selfish and indifferent boyfriend and a cruel and indifferent mother. But she shares a quality common to Barbara Comyns’s other heroines: a bracingly unsentimental ability to carry on. Before too long, Bella has found not only a job but a vocation; not only a place to live but a home and a makeshift family. As Comyns’s novel progresses, the story echoes and inverts the Brothers Grimm’s macabre tale The Juniper Tree. Will Bella’s hard-won restoration to life and love come at the cost of the happiness of others?
| Author | : Barbara Comyns |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 184 |
| Release | : 2021-07 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781911547860 |
Download A Touch of Mistletoe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'Our mother rather lost interest in us after the thirst got hold of her and, although our grandfather was vaguely fond of us, he certainly wasn't interested.'
| Author | : BARBARA. COMYNS |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781916254725 |
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| Author | : Willa Cather |
| Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
| Total Pages | : 382 |
| Release | : 1960 |
| Genre | : Farm life |
| ISBN | : 1442934379 |
Download One of Ours Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Irmgard Keun |
| Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
| Total Pages | : 217 |
| Release | : 2011-06-14 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1590514548 |
Download The Artificial Silk Girl Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature, in the tradition of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and Bertolt Brecht's Three Penny Opera. Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun revealed the dark underside of Berlin's "golden twenties" with empathy and honesty. Unfortunately, a Nazi censorship board banned Keun's work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies of The Artificial Silk Girl. Only one English translation was published, in Great Britain, before the book disappeared in the chaos of the ensuing war. Today, more than seven decades later, the story of this quintessential "material girl" remains as relevant as ever, as an accessible new translation brings this lost classic to light once more. Other Press is pleased to announce the republication of The Artificial Silk Girl, elegantly translated by noted Germanist Kathie von Ankum, and with a new introduction by Harvard professor Maria Tatar.
| Author | : Lore Segal |
| Publisher | : The New Press |
| Total Pages | : 241 |
| Release | : 2008-04-29 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1595585834 |
Download Shakespeare's Kitchen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal's stunning new book evolved from seven short stories that originally appeared in the New Yorker (including the O. Henry Prize–;winning “The Reverse Bug”). Ilka Weisz has accepted a teaching position at the Concordance Institute, a think tank in Connecticut, reluctantly leaving her New York circle of friends. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute's director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza. Through a series of memorable dinner parties, picnics, and Sunday brunches, Segal evokes the subtle drama and humor of the outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people's deaths. A magnificent and deeply moving work, Shakespeare's Kitchen marks the long-awaited return of a writer at the height of her powers.
