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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... half - term would finish at twelve . The women who had part - time jobs now started grum- bling about this and making convoluted webs of arrangements . " If you drop Neil off at two , then my neighbor will be there , you remember , he ...
... half - term would finish at twelve . The women who had part - time jobs now started grum- bling about this and making convoluted webs of arrangements . " If you drop Neil off at two , then my neighbor will be there , you remember , he ...
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... half an hour or so to bathe the dazed Robin , to wash the acrid curds holding kernels of sweet corn and disks of peas from his feathery hair and wrap him in clean pajamas and lay him down in the big bed beside his noble - looking father ...
... half an hour or so to bathe the dazed Robin , to wash the acrid curds holding kernels of sweet corn and disks of peas from his feathery hair and wrap him in clean pajamas and lay him down in the big bed beside his noble - looking father ...
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... half the guests were black to sit and laugh at racist jokes . You wouldn't call that a sense - of - humor failure . " " That's different , " growled lain . " Anyway , who will be giving the Toast to the Lassies now ? " " They found an ...
... half the guests were black to sit and laugh at racist jokes . You wouldn't call that a sense - of - humor failure . " " That's different , " growled lain . " Anyway , who will be giving the Toast to the Lassies now ? " " They found an ...
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