Paperback. ?Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of their inevitable sexual prisons, part of their middle age. To be able to say consistently interesting things about these embroilments?class, sex, age?is a triumph for a novelist. Cynthia Propper Seton has pulled off just such a triumph.? ?Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times An elegantly written comedy of manners, constructed around serious ideasideas jovially and sometimes outrageously explored by a group of civilized people. . . .It has been a long time since so much sparkling, quirky talk has appeared in an American novel. . . .This novel is a pure, a rare delight. Eugenia Thornton, Cleveland Plain Dealer This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title: A Fine Romance (Paperback)
Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York
Publication Date: 1982
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0393300323
ISBN 13: 9780393300321
Binding: Paperback
Edition: 2nd Edition
Condition: new

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“An elegantly written comedy of manners, constructed around serious ideas―ideas jovially and sometimes outrageously explored by a group of civilized people. . . .It has been a long time since so much sparkling, quirky talk has appeared in an American novel. . . .This novel is a pure, a rare delight.” ―Eugenia Thornton, ―Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Shines with elusive insights about persons we recognize at once as acquaintances and friends, caught briefly in events that are part of their upper-class life, part of their inevitable sexual prisons, part of their middle age. To be able to say consistently interesting things about these embroilments―class, sex, age―is a triumph for a novelist. Cynthia Propper Seton has pulled off just such a triumph.” ―Doris Grumbach, Los Angeles Times

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