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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... child to calm down . " You'll be better with a child than I am , ” said the workman gratefully as Jade approached , and before she could agree — or disagree he had shot off back to his sandblasting . " She's stuck a lentil up her nose ...
... child to calm down . " You'll be better with a child than I am , ” said the workman gratefully as Jade approached , and before she could agree — or disagree he had shot off back to his sandblasting . " She's stuck a lentil up her nose ...
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... child and tried to control her crying , allowing herself to be comforted in between the probings inside her face ... child's nose and could see a gray - green disk at the top of one fleshy nos- tril . Tentatively she waved the silver ...
... child and tried to control her crying , allowing herself to be comforted in between the probings inside her face ... child's nose and could see a gray - green disk at the top of one fleshy nos- tril . Tentatively she waved the silver ...
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... child in there and spoil that Edenic all - day - breakfast fun . It would take the insensitivity of an ox . Unthinkable . Here is all right . They get all sorts here . Here is used to women walking in with that look on their faces ...
... child in there and spoil that Edenic all - day - breakfast fun . It would take the insensitivity of an ox . Unthinkable . Here is all right . They get all sorts here . Here is used to women walking in with that look on their faces ...
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anyway asked Au pair baby breath Brian Mahon Burns Burns Night Burns Supper catsuit Charlie child childminder color conga course Daddy Donald Forfar door Dorrie dress Eurydice eyes face feel felt front garden girl glass growled hand head Helen Simpson Herr Mangelkammer Holly Horble husband Iain Buchanan inside Isobel Jade Janine Jean Keith Mannion kiss lain Lassies laughing listen Lois look Mail on Sunday Martin Max's Maxine Maxine's minute nanny never nice night noise Orpheus pulled quaich Robert Burns Robin Roderick MacKenzie round Ruth Rendell says Cassie says Sally screaming shouted sigh sleep smiled sort started stood surtitles Susan talk Tess there's thing thought Nicola tinnitus trying turned walk watched What's whiskey whispered wife woman women Wurstigkeit