Quartet In Autumn
A Fiction, British Literature, European Literature book. She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn
Quartet in Autumn is one of the books Pym wrote during the 15 years when no one would publish her, and perhaps the same kind of balance between hopelessness and inner strength helped shape this novel's story about four friends in an office nearing the age of retirement. They are people who have lived unspectacularly, but who have conjured a sense of themselves from the quartet's unity. Things start to change when two of them retire. Pym maps this ordinary strangeness of life with her particular genius for brilliant psychological insight and quiet humor that never strains for effect.
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A room in Holmhurst was the last thing she'd come to - better to lie down in the wood under the beech leaces and the bracken and wait quietly for death. Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn One did not drink sherry before the evening, just as one did not read a novel in the morning. Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... Barbara Pym, Quartet in Autumn
It took me many tries to get past the first 30 pages or so of this brief novel, but I'm glad I finally did. The quartet of characters in this book is not immediately likeable, and although Pym portrays them gently, she is also unfailingly honest. The book is kind of like an unwitty, unflashy, 1950s version of the The Office (the original... This was recommended to me by various bloggers and certainly lived up to their praise. Originally published in 1977, this was Pyms seventh novel out of nine; she died in 1980. Its about four London office workers, all sixty-somethings who are partnerless and dont have, or at least dont live with, any immediate family members. We never... My friend Rebekah recommended Barbara Pym on her blog recently, and as she is a sharp reader with exquisite taste, I had to discover Pym for myself. I had never even heard of Pym, but after reading Quartet in Autumn and Excellent Women I can see why some regard her as the most underrated British author of the 20th century. Quartet in...
