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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... child in there and spoil that Edenic all-day-breakfast fun. It would take the insensitivity of an ox. Unthinkable. Here is all right. They get all sorts here. Here is used to women walking in with that look on their faces—What hit me ...
... child in there and spoil that Edenic all-day-breakfast fun. It would take the insensitivity of an ox. Unthinkable. Here is all right. They get all sorts here. Here is used to women walking in with that look on their faces—What hit me ...
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... child to her coat with absent fervor. He is drawing breath for a blare of delayed shock when the arrival of the toast deflects him. “The camel's back,” says Sally obscurely. “Not funny,” comments Frances, who understands that she is ...
... child to her coat with absent fervor. He is drawing breath for a blare of delayed shock when the arrival of the toast deflects him. “The camel's back,” says Sally obscurely. “Not funny,” comments Frances, who understands that she is ...
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... child, Emma, and also until her second, Rose, was three, as well as running the domestic circus, functioning as the beating heart of the family while deferring to the demands of her partner's job in that it was always her rather than ...
... child, Emma, and also until her second, Rose, was three, as well as running the domestic circus, functioning as the beating heart of the family while deferring to the demands of her partner's job in that it was always her rather than ...
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... when she doesn't speak English. Now if it was just Leo he'd be fine,” she continues, off on another tack, thinking aloud about her two eldest children. “But Gemma is different.” The child Ben slides off his chair and runs over.
... when she doesn't speak English. Now if it was just Leo he'd be fine,” she continues, off on another tack, thinking aloud about her two eldest children. “But Gemma is different.” The child Ben slides off his chair and runs over.
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... child Ben. She wants to sit on Sally's lap all the time when she is there, and nags and whines like a neglected wife, and clings so hard that all around are uncomfortably filled with irritation. She has formed fervid attachments to the ...
... child Ben. She wants to sit on Sally's lap all the time when she is there, and nags and whines like a neglected wife, and clings so hard that all around are uncomfortably filled with irritation. She has formed fervid attachments to the ...
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