Getting a Life: StoriesAlfred A. Knopf, 2001 - 196 страница From the writer whose work has been described as sparingly tragic and unsparingly funny (Ruth Rendell) and shimmering with grace and savagery and wit ("The Times," London), a new collection: nine stories about the blisses and irritations of domestic life. The setting is contemporary London and its suburbs. A seventeen-year-old girl, a student of Coleridge and Keats, walks toward her future resolved not to be anything like her successful career-woman mother. At a small caf? in South Kensington, two women, teachers, become tipsy and exchange confidences about their family difficulties and marital turmoils, revealing more than they intend. A celebratory dinner for a timber merchant and his wife in South London turns into something else entirely. In the midst of a sensuous shopping spree, a woman shares with her friend the secret of a state of mind known as wurstigkeit ('sausageness'). At a Robert Burns gala in a Mayfair hotel, poetry and money collide head-on. These are stories that charm and move us as they catch the special timbre part laughter, part wail of youngish, more or less sophisticated lives in the city at our particular moment in time. |
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... Robin , " said Dorrie as Robin brought his head under her chin and crashed her teeth together . " Good - bye , " said Max from the doorway . " Don't forget we're going out tonight , " said Dorrie from the pillows . " Oh yes , " said Max ...
... Robin , " said Dorrie as Robin brought his head under her chin and crashed her teeth together . " Good - bye , " said Max from the doorway . " Don't forget we're going out tonight , " said Dorrie from the pillows . " Oh yes , " said Max ...
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... Robin passed a little girl of three or so saying to her mother , “ But Mummy , I miss you " ; and the mother , smartly dressed , a briefcase by her , rather tightly reasoning with her , murmuring , glancing at her watch . Dorrie felt ...
... Robin passed a little girl of three or so saying to her mother , “ But Mummy , I miss you " ; and the mother , smartly dressed , a briefcase by her , rather tightly reasoning with her , murmuring , glancing at her watch . Dorrie felt ...
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... Robin ? " said Max . " I don't know what to choose , " said Robin , looking from his father to his mother and back again . He was out of his depth . Dorrie felt anger bulge up as big as a whale surfacing , but breathed it down and said ...
... Robin ? " said Max . " I don't know what to choose , " said Robin , looking from his father to his mother and back again . He was out of his depth . Dorrie felt anger bulge up as big as a whale surfacing , but breathed it down and said ...
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