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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... felt , they all felt , they were trying harder than their parents had ever done to love well . And one of the side effects of this was that their children were incredibly quick to castigate any short- fall in the quality of attention ...
... felt , they all felt , they were trying harder than their parents had ever done to love well . And one of the side effects of this was that their children were incredibly quick to castigate any short- fall in the quality of attention ...
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... felt a shudder run through her . Stress ! She could handle it . She positively enjoyed jumping in its salty waves . The danger was , you got too good at it . You started to see time that was not paid time - chargeable hours— as dead ...
... felt a shudder run through her . Stress ! She could handle it . She positively enjoyed jumping in its salty waves . The danger was , you got too good at it . You started to see time that was not paid time - chargeable hours— as dead ...
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... felt he had achieved something . He had achieved something . He had conquered the island , he had patterned it with his foot- prints , he had written his name on the sandy floor of the her- mit's very cell with his big toe . Next week ...
... felt he had achieved something . He had achieved something . He had conquered the island , he had patterned it with his foot- prints , he had written his name on the sandy floor of the her- mit's very cell with his big toe . Next week ...
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