Pym, Barbara
Quartet in autumn Print Barbara Pym. - New York Plume Published by the Penguin Group, [1992], c1977. - 218 p. ; 20 cm. Paperback book.
"A Plume book."
"Quartet in Autumn" is the first of Barbara Pym's later novels and is considered by many to be her masterpiece. This softly compelling story of human dignity in the midst of hopelessness present us with four elderly single people who work in the same office. When the two women retire, this act threatens the lives of all four. Out of tragicomic themes of old age, Pym has written a tale of almost musical perfection.
9780452269347 0452269342
Older people
Retirement
England.
Pym 2
Quartet in autumn Print Barbara Pym. - New York Plume Published by the Penguin Group, [1992], c1977. - 218 p. ; 20 cm. Paperback book.
"A Plume book."
"Quartet in Autumn" is the first of Barbara Pym's later novels and is considered by many to be her masterpiece. This softly compelling story of human dignity in the midst of hopelessness present us with four elderly single people who work in the same office. When the two women retire, this act threatens the lives of all four. Out of tragicomic themes of old age, Pym has written a tale of almost musical perfection.
9780452269347 0452269342
Older people
Retirement
England.
Pym 2