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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... morning pulled on a brief white skirt and T-shirt. She was on her way to an interview for a holiday job at the garden center. Summer! She couldn't wait. The morning was fair but chilly and the white-gold hairs on her arms and legs stood ...
... morning pulled on a brief white skirt and T-shirt. She was on her way to an interview for a holiday job at the garden center. Summer! She couldn't wait. The morning was fair but chilly and the white-gold hairs on her arms and legs stood ...
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... . “And a job. Good-bye.” She turned with relief back into the shining spring morning and started to sprint, fast and light, as quick off the blocks as Atalanta. CAFÉ SOCIETY Two shattered women and a bright-eyed child have.
... . “And a job. Good-bye.” She turned with relief back into the shining spring morning and started to sprint, fast and light, as quick off the blocks as Atalanta. CAFÉ SOCIETY Two shattered women and a bright-eyed child have.
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... mornings he won't go back to sleep after five, so she has him in with her jumping and playing and singing. She hasn't shared a bedroom with her husband for eighteen months now. She'd carried on full-time through the first and second ...
... mornings he won't go back to sleep after five, so she has him in with her jumping and playing and singing. She hasn't shared a bedroom with her husband for eighteen months now. She'd carried on full-time through the first and second ...
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