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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... girl trailed past with a double buggy of grizzling babies , a Walkman's shrunken tinkling at her ears . Au pair , remarked Jade expertly to herself , scrutin- izing the girl's shoes , cerise plastic jellies set with glitter . She wanted ...
... girl trailed past with a double buggy of grizzling babies , a Walkman's shrunken tinkling at her ears . Au pair , remarked Jade expertly to herself , scrutin- izing the girl's shoes , cerise plastic jellies set with glitter . She wanted ...
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... girls who had not yet crossed the ego line . And of course some girls never did cross the ego line . Like men , they stayed the stars of their own lives . Then there was this lot , this lot here with words like juggle and struggle ...
... girls who had not yet crossed the ego line . And of course some girls never did cross the ego line . Like men , they stayed the stars of their own lives . Then there was this lot , this lot here with words like juggle and struggle ...
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... girl or other . Famously there was Highland Mary , Mary Campbell , with whom he joined hands under the current of the brook where they met in a private marriage pledge , and who died in child- birth with his baby about the time Jean ...
... girl or other . Famously there was Highland Mary , Mary Campbell , with whom he joined hands under the current of the brook where they met in a private marriage pledge , and who died in child- birth with his baby about the time Jean ...
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