Getting a Life: StoriesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 11. 6. 2002. - 208 страница Hilarious, dark, and thoroughly entertaining, Getting a Life proves Helen Simpson to be one of the finest observers of women on the edge. Set in and around contemporary London, these nine stories explore both the blisses and irritations of domestic life. An ambitious teenager vows never to settle for any of the adult lives she sees around her. Two old friends get tipsy at a small cafe and end up revealing more than they intended. In a boutique so exclusive that entrance requires a password, a frazzled careerwoman explores the anesthetizing effect of highly impractical clothing. And in the mesmerizing title story, a mother of three takes life one day at a time, while pushing the ominous question of whether she wants to firmly to one side. |
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... close to the heart . " -Clare Boylan , The Independent on Sunday " It is the book's truthfulness that makes it both intensely tragic and intensely comic . " -A . S. Byatt , The Mail on Sunday This One J33K - 3FO - N4SD " A wonderfully ...
... close to the heart . " -Clare Boylan , The Independent on Sunday " It is the book's truthfulness that makes it both intensely tragic and intensely comic . " -A . S. Byatt , The Mail on Sunday This One J33K - 3FO - N4SD " A wonderfully ...
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... close in censorship at the merest hint of such talk . Put up and shut up is the rule , except with fellow mothers . Even then it can be taken as letting the side down . She yawns uncontrollably so that her eyes water , leaving her with ...
... close in censorship at the merest hint of such talk . Put up and shut up is the rule , except with fellow mothers . Even then it can be taken as letting the side down . She yawns uncontrollably so that her eyes water , leaving her with ...
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... close your eyes . She had stroked his temple with the side of her little finger . Gradually he had allowed himself to be lowered down , a rung at a time , towards the dark surface of sleep . He had given a tiny groan as she moved to get ...
... close your eyes . She had stroked his temple with the side of her little finger . Gradually he had allowed himself to be lowered down , a rung at a time , towards the dark surface of sleep . He had given a tiny groan as she moved to get ...
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