Quartet in Autumn - Hardcover

Pym, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525186654 ISBN 13: 9780525186656

Publisher: E.P. Dutton, 1978

Synopsis

Four elderly, single co-workers, two men and two women who have only their work and each other to live for, are forced to deal with changes brought on by the women's retirement

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Review:

Quartet in Autumn is one of the books Pym wrote during the 15 years when no one would publish her, and perhaps the same kind of balance between hopelessness and inner strength helped shape this novel's story about four friends in an office nearing the age of retirement. They are people who have lived unspectacularly, but who have conjured a sense of themselves from the quartet's unity. Things start to change when two of them retire. Pym maps this ordinary strangeness of life with her particular genius for brilliant psychological insight and quiet humor that never strains for effect.

About the Author:

A writer from the age of sixteen, BARBARA PYM has been acclaimed as "the most underrated writer of the century" (Philip Larkin). Pym’s substantial reputation evolved through the publication of six novels from 1950 to 1961, then resumed in 1977 with the publication of Quartet in Autumn and three other novels. She died in 1980.

About this edition

• Publisher: E.P. Dutton
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0525186654
• ISBN 13: 9780525186656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 218