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264 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780156006040
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication date: 15 October 1998
Description
In a "profoundly moving, intellectually acute" novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is "as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh" (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping childr...
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264 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780156006040
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Mariner Books
Publication date: 15 October 1998
Description
In a "profoundly moving, intellectually acute" novel (Philadelphia Inquirer) that is "as meticulous as Jane Austen, as deadly as Evelyn Waugh" (Los Angeles Times), Margaret Drabble conjures up a retired writer besieged by her three grasping childr...