Getting a Life: StoriesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 18. 12. 2007. - 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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... Simpson. GETTING A LIFE stories by Helen Si mpson WINTA - E III NT FM. To LA H. A. R. I E & WINTA I. F. H. H. H. H. & A DIVISION or RANI) () M Hous E, INC. HEW YH. R. K. She had grown stouter and broader, so that it was. Front Cover.
... Simpson. GETTING A LIFE stories by Helen Si mpson WINTA - E III NT FM. To LA H. A. R. I E & WINTA I. F. H. H. H. H. & A DIVISION or RANI) () M Hous E, INC. HEW YH. R. K. She had grown stouter and broader, so that it was. Front Cover.
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... front gardens of the little Edwardian villas smiled back at her with early lilac, bushes of crimson flowering currant and the myopic blue dazzle of forget-me-nots. She felt light on her feet and clever, like a cat, snuffing the air ...
... front gardens of the little Edwardian villas smiled back at her with early lilac, bushes of crimson flowering currant and the myopic blue dazzle of forget-me-nots. She felt light on her feet and clever, like a cat, snuffing the air ...
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... front door screaming at them all to do their music practice. She was always off out; she made them do what she said by remote control. Her trouble was, she'd forgotten how to relax. It was no wonder Dad was like he was. And everybody ...
... front door screaming at them all to do their music practice. She was always off out; she made them do what she said by remote control. Her trouble was, she'd forgotten how to relax. It was no wonder Dad was like he was. And everybody ...
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... front room window; so bourgeois. Whereas her gap-year cousin had just been all over India for under two hundred pounds. The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Little we see in Nature ...
... front room window; so bourgeois. Whereas her gap-year cousin had just been all over India for under two hundred pounds. The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. Little we see in Nature ...
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... front room. Jade lowered her snuffling burden to the carpet and looked around her with undisguised disdain. The furniture was all boring and ugly while the pictures, well, the pictures were like a propaganda campaign for family values ...
... front room. Jade lowered her snuffling burden to the carpet and looked around her with undisguised disdain. The furniture was all boring and ugly while the pictures, well, the pictures were like a propaganda campaign for family values ...
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