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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... mother the slim, mobile Natasha of old days. Her features had become more defined, and wore an expression of calm softness and serenity. Her face had no longer that ever-glowing fire of eagerness that had once constituted her chief ...
... mother the slim, mobile Natasha of old days. Her features had become more defined, and wore an expression of calm softness and serenity. Her face had no longer that ever-glowing fire of eagerness that had once constituted her chief ...
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... mother, making timetables and lists and endless arrangements, lost forever in a forest of twitching detail with her tense talk of juggling and her self-importance about her precious job and her joyless “running the family.” No, life was ...
... mother, making timetables and lists and endless arrangements, lost forever in a forest of twitching detail with her tense talk of juggling and her self-importance about her precious job and her joyless “running the family.” No, life was ...
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... mother, as rapidly desperate as a talentless stand-up comedian. “Last week she swallowed a penny. Casualty said, A penny's OK, wait for it to come out the other end. Which it did. But they'd have had to open her up if it had been a five ...
... mother, as rapidly desperate as a talentless stand-up comedian. “Last week she swallowed a penny. Casualty said, A penny's OK, wait for it to come out the other end. Which it did. But they'd have had to open her up if it had been a five ...
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... mother. She did not want to be implicated in the flabby womany-ness of the proceedings, and stared crossly at this ... mother's ragged cuticles, the graceless way her heels stuck out from the backs of her sandals like hunks of Parmesan ...
... mother. She did not want to be implicated in the flabby womany-ness of the proceedings, and stared crossly at this ... mother's ragged cuticles, the graceless way her heels stuck out from the backs of her sandals like hunks of Parmesan ...
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... mother clamped her head and shoulders down with tired violence. “I don't think I'd better do this,” said Jade. She was frightened that metal inside the warm young face combined with sudden fierce movement could be a disastrous ...
... mother clamped her head and shoulders down with tired violence. “I don't think I'd better do this,” said Jade. She was frightened that metal inside the warm young face combined with sudden fierce movement could be a disastrous ...
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