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Scenes from Provincial Life: Including Scenes from Married Life: Penguin Decades

Autor William Cooper
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010
Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were bestsellers, some were considered scandalous, and others were simply misunderstood. All represent their time and helped define their generation, while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling.

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

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.