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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... walk through the nursery school's entrance and was shouting and struggling as she carried him in . She had set him down by a low table of jigsaw puzzles and told him sternly that she would sit over there in that corner for five minutes ...
... walk through the nursery school's entrance and was shouting and struggling as she carried him in . She had set him down by a low table of jigsaw puzzles and told him sternly that she would sit over there in that corner for five minutes ...
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... walk across the strand to the island and visit the ancient cell of the hermit who had lived centuries before in the heart of its little woods . " There doesn't seem to be any logic to it , " said Dorrie , looking over his shoulder at ...
... walk across the strand to the island and visit the ancient cell of the hermit who had lived centuries before in the heart of its little woods . " There doesn't seem to be any logic to it , " said Dorrie , looking over his shoulder at ...
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... walk on her own , just down to the beach below the hotel . " It'll do you good , ” he said . He was going to sit by the bedroom's picture window in the half - dark with a beer , and would probably be able to make out her figure if the ...
... walk on her own , just down to the beach below the hotel . " It'll do you good , ” he said . He was going to sit by the bedroom's picture window in the half - dark with a beer , and would probably be able to make out her figure if the ...
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