A Few Green Leaves - Softcover

Pym, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1559212284 ISBN 13: 9781559212281

Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

In A FEW GREEN LEAVES the author combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with many of the themes- and even some of the characters- of her later ones. Switching points of view among many characters, she builds with accumulating effect the picture of life in a town forgotten by time yet affected dramatically by it. Historical time- represented by Druid ruins, the local eighteenth-century country manor, and the last aristocrats who occupied it in the 1920s- is juxtaposed against the banalities of life in today's world.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Pym, who died on January 11, 1980, spent the last few years of her life in an Oxfordshire village, sharing a small cottage with her sister. In 1977, after sixteen years in the wilderness she published QUARTET IN AUTUMN. It was treated as a major literary event, as was her next novel, THE SWEET DOVE DIED.

Review:

"All the people in A Few Green Leaves are completely realistic; the sort of people we meet every day of our lives and never particularly notice...Miss Pym's art endows them with a significance which they could never possess in life." -- Times Literary Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Moyer Bell Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1559212284
• ISBN 13: 9781559212281
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 250