A Few Green Leaves

Paperback

Main Details

Title A Few Green Leaves
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Barbara Pym
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:210
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781447236870
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Macmillan Bello
Publication Date 28 March 2013
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Barbara Pym was an incomparable chronicler of ordinary, quiet lives. With warmth, humour, precision and great vividness, she gave her best characters an independent life we recognise as totally familiar. In A Few Green Leaves, her last novel, her heroine is Emma Howick, anthropologist. Through her eyes Barbara Pym examines in her own ironic and individual style the quiet revolution in English village life, combining the rural settings of her earliest novels with the themes and characters of her later works. The result is a compelling portrait of a town that seems to be forgotten by time, but which is unmistakably affected by it. Romance shares the pages with death in this engaging novel that is the culmination of Barbara Pym's acclaimed writing career. 'I could go on reading her for ever' A L Rowse, Punch 'A vivid sense of how we live now' New Statesman 'Her sense of brilliant comedy is a direct inheritance from Jane Austen' Hibernia 'A beautifully written, very delicate comedy' The Times Literary Supplement

Author Biography

A writer from the age of sixteen, Barbara Pym has been acclaimed as 'the most underrated writer of the century' (Philip Larkin). Pym's substantial reputation evolved through the publication of six novels from 1950 to 1961, then resumed in 1977 with the publication of Quartet in Autumn and three other novels. She died in 1980.