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An Academic Question Barbara Pym

An Academic Question By Barbara Pym

An Academic Question by Barbara Pym


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Summary

*Another delightful comedy of manners from Barbara Pym.

An Academic Question Summary

An Academic Question by Barbara Pym

A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers as a reader to a blind, esteemed anthropologist, Alan seizes the opportunity to steal his papers - research that could both advance his reputation while refuting the findings of a respected colleague.

About Barbara Pym

Barbara Pym (1913-80) was born in Shropshire and educated at St Hilda's College, Oxford. When in 1977 the TLS asked critics to name the most underrated authors of the past 75 years, only one was named twice (by Philip Larkin and Lord David Cecil): Barbara Pym. Her novels are characterised by what Anne Tyler has called 'the heartbreaking silliness of everyday life'.

Additional information

GOR003787142
9781844087235
1844087239
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2012-05-03
224
N/A
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