A Quiet Life

By:

Beryl Bainbridge

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Virago Modern Classics

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Description

Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his troublesome sister Madge creeps off for night-time liaisons with a German POW; their ineffectual father - broken by the hardships of war and an unhappy marriage - can't put food on the table despite the family's middle-class manners. Meanwhile, his mother pursues her escapist fantasies in romantic novels and love affairs. Obedient, faithful Alan is trapped among them all, the focus of their jibes and resentment, as inexorably the family heads towards disaster. Beryl Bainbridge's classic early novel is a vintage story of English domestic life, laced with sadness, irony and wicked black humour.

Author Biography:

Beryl Bainbridge was one of the greatest living novelists. Author of seventeen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television, she was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and won many literary awards including the Whitbread Prize and the Author of the Year Award at the British Book Awards. She died in July 2010.

Release date NZ

March 7th, 2013

Author

Beryl Bainbridge

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Alex Clark

Illustrations

None

Pages

176

Series

Virago Modern Classics

Dimensions

130x195x13

ISBN-13

9781844088638

Product ID

19841685

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