Scenes from Provincial Life: Including Scenes from Married Life: Penguin Decades
Autor William Cooperen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010
William Cooper'sScenes from Provincial Lifewas first published in 1950, when Joe Lunn was one of the first breed of ordinary male anti-hero protagonists to appear in English fiction. Joe's exploits and ordinariness, as he tries to avoid his mistress Myrtle's attempts to trap him into marriage, brilliantly poke fun at what were, and often remain, the taboo subjects of sex and class. Published at the beginning of the decade, William Cooper's novel ushered in books likeLucky JimandRoom at the Topin the 1950s.
This edition also contains the sequel,Scenes from Married Life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141046884
ISBN-10: 0141046880
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Penguin Decades
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141046880
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 35 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Seria Penguin Decades
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
William
Cooper
was
the
pen-name
of
Harry
Huff,
born
in
Crewe
in
1910
and
educated
at
Cambridge.
He
began
teaching
in
Leicester
in
the
mid30s,
and
set
his
seminal
novelScenes
from
Provincial
Lifethere.
During
the
war
he
served
in
the
RAF,
and
later
became
a
civil
servant
working
among
other
things
for
the
Atomic
Energy
Commission.
He
wrote
over
a
dozen
novels,
and
lived
for
a
long
time
in
Putney,
London
where
he
died
in
2002.