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| #128925 in Books | Barbara Pym | 1992-07-15 | 1992-07-15 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.51 x.59 x5.23l,.41 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | Quartet in Autumn||57 of 57 people found the following review helpful.| If You Are No Longer Young and Not Quite Old...|By A. Anderson|It would be hard to overpraise this book.
It is the early 1970s in London and the four co-workers are nearing retirement. They are in office jobs so meaningless that,once they have retired, they will not be replaced--a lovely, heartbreaking metaphor that is just one of notes that grace this spare tale.|.com |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
Shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly, poignantly, satirically and with much humour, Pym conducts us through their small lives and the facade they erect to defend themselves against the outside world. There is nevertheless an obstinate optimism in her...
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