The Narrowing Stream - Softcover

Mortimer, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140144218 ISBN 13: 9780140144215

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1990

About this title

About the Author:

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.

From Library Journal:

Set in the English countryside, this is the story of one summer's day in the life of Julia Swinton, a middle-class housewife and mother of three young children. Though her marriage is stable, she feels that her life is becoming narrower and that it is too late to change. The day's events pivot around the death of a local woman whom Julia has never met and Julia's odd encounter with the woman's brother. What she learns that day has a disturbing effect on her relationship with her husband, and the two of them must learn to deal with complex and uncomfortable feelings that press and sting just beneath the surface of conscious awareness. First published in England in 1954, this novel is notable for its flawless plotting, superb characterization, and pellucid style, enriched by Mortimer's characteristic subtlety of perception, depth of thought, and keen wit.
- Bryan Aubrey, Fairfield, Ia.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140144218
• ISBN 13: 9780140144215
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192