A Weekend With Claude
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
8 January 2013
Summary
An old snapshot shows a group of friends lounging in the sunshine, on a weekend in the country at the invitation of bearded, satyric Claude and his wife Julia. The girl in the centre is dreamy Lily, whose latest failed love affair forms the purpose of the weekend, as Lily’s friends set out to help her ensnare an unwitting father for her unborn child. Next to her is Norman, a Marxist romantic hell-bent on seducing his milk-white hostess; behind them is old, persecuted Shebah; and, slightly apa…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844088546 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1844088545 |
| Author: | Beryl Bainbridge, Linda Grant |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 8 January 2013 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 128mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Her genius lies in the comic evocation of the mundane life against which her characters are in perpetual and ineffectual revolt
Extremely lively and incisive entertainment - Times Literary Supplement
Her genius lies in the comic evocation of the flat and mundane life against which her characters and in perpetual and ineffectual revolt - Sunday TimesDelicious… very elegant and pleasing… a work of art - ScotsmanAbout The Author
Beryl Bainbridge
Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010) wrote eighteen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. Five of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Every Man for Himself and Injury Time won the Whitbread Prize, The Bottle Factory Outing won the Guardian Fiction Prize and Master Georgie won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Four of her novels including An Awfully Big Adventure were adapted for film. In 2011, Bainbridge was honoured posthumously with a special Best of Beryl Man Booker Prize in recognition of her outstanding career. Her final novel, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, was published in 2011.
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