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The adventures of Miss Barbara Pym : a biography / Paula Byrne.

By: Publisher: London : William Collins, 2021Description: 686 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780008322205
  • 0008322201
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 920
Summary: "Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer - one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart - so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love?"--Publisher's description.
List(s) this item appears in: New acquisitions Autumn 2022
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Loanable Book Library Biography 920 PYM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 000417429

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen. But who was Barbara Pym and why was the life of this English writer - one of the greatest chroniclers of the human heart - so defined by rejection, both in her writing and in love?"--Publisher's description.

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