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Submerged A.L. Barker

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Submerged A.L. Barker


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Zusammenfassung

In these tales of cunning, fancy and shifting alliances, commonplace superstitions mingle effortlessly with submerged desire.

Submerged Zusammenfassung

Submerged A.L. Barker

'Dauntingly fresh' OBSERVER

'Hot, sparkling and exciting' INDEPENDENT

'Mercurial and elusive' ADAM MARS-JONES

A. L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted Auberon Waugh to declare that she 'writes like an angel and I love her'.

In her tenth collection of stories, Barker unfolds tales of cunning, fancy and shifting alliances. Here a young boy fosters grand illusions; a wife faces broken promises; a dutiful committee woman meets a sparky old gentleman; a witch is drowned; an intruder insinuates himself into a lonely woman's holiday; and commonplace superstition mingles effortlessly with submerged desire.

Submerged Bewertungen

Marries the deadpan timing of Kingsley Amis at his driest with a tinge of eerie nature-mysticism that brings Iris Murdoch to mind .... Hot, sparkling, exciting -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Almost dauntingly fresh -- glancing, mercurial, elusive * Observer *
Her prose is like the botanical flower paintings at Kew: 17 washes precede the final glaze -- Jane Gardam * Spectator *
Glancing, mercurial, elusive -- Adam Mars-Jones
She writes like an angel and I love her -- Auberon Waugh
Barker has come full circle, and the short story reigns triumphant -- Elizabeth Berridge * Guardian *

Über A.L. Barker

A. L. Barker left school at sixteen and after the war joined the BBC. Her debut collection of short stories, Innocents, won the Somerset Maugham Prize in 1947 and her novel, John Brown's Body, was shortlisted for the 1969 Booker Prize. The author of eleven novels and ten collections of stories, she died in 2002.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR003320967
9781860499289
1860499287
Submerged A.L. Barker
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Little, Brown Book Group
20030605
256
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