INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER In a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers to read to a blind, esteemed anthropologist in a nursing home, Alan seizes the opportunity to steal his papers - research that could both advance his reputation while refuting the findings of a respected colleague. A ...
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INTRODUCED BY KATE SAUNDERS 'I'm a huge fan of Barbara Pym' RICHARD OSMAN 'My favourite writer . . . I pick up her books with joy' JILLY COOPER In a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers to read to a blind, esteemed anthropologist in a nursing home, Alan seizes the opportunity to steal his papers - research that could both advance his reputation while refuting the findings of a respected colleague. A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. 'She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life' ANNE TYLER 'Beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip' NEW YORK TIMES
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. First American edition. Light foxing and sunning on topedges, crown slightly bumped, just about near fine in a near fine dust jacket with corresponding creasing at the crown. A novel set in a provincial English university in the early 1970s, published posthumously.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Dutton, 1986. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Tidy and clean copy with unopened pages. Glossy jacket with a little light wrinkling at lower edge and fading on rear. Jacket with original price..
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FINE IN FINE DUST JACKET. PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED NOVEL FROM BARBARA PYM'S " SILENT " PERIOD. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. D.J. IS ABOUT FINE WITH A TOUCH OF COLOR FADE TO THE SPINE AND TOP OF FLAPS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. AN EXCELLENT CLEAN, BRIGHT COPY WITH NO REMAINDER MARK.
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If you're a fan of Barbara Pym, you may not know this one, her last, and slightly different from her usual style in that it's told in the first-person. She almost didn't publish it but others urged her to. It's not one of her best, but worth reading. There's a bit more harshness here, perhaps reflecting her not enjoying the success she clearly deserved in her lifetime. Now she has a world of devoted fans.