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Synopsis
“It is a very good novel. I think it may be a great novel… sensitivity to human relationships and a sense of form which we have missed since EM Forster grew silent.”
News Chronicle
“Read this book. It is a fine example of the work of one of the best contemporary novelists.”
C P Snow
“A bizarre love story… full of his best fun.”
Daily Telegraph
“A marvellous writer.”
Doris Lessing
Tabitha Baskett is seduced by an engaging scoundrel named Bonser who deserts her when she is pregnant.
She is taken under the wing of a businessman who is also a patron of the arts; and after his death, by a millionaire.
Finally she returns to Bonser who marries her.
In charting the life of Tabitha, Cary has written one of the most enchantingly comic and life-enhancing stories of modern fiction and a vivid history of the first half of the twentieth century.
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About the Author
Joyce Cary was born in 1888 into an old Anglo-Irish family and educated at Clifton. He studied art, first in Edinburgh and then in Paris, before going up to Trinity College, Oxford, in 1909 to read law. On coming down he served as a Red Cross orderly in the Balkan War of 1912-13, the inspiration for Memoir of the Bobotes, before joining the Nigerian Political Service.
He served in the Nigeria Regiment during the First World War, was wounded while fighting in the Cameroons, and returned to civil duty in Nigeria in 1917 as a district officer. His time in Africa provided the inspiration for his first four novels. Though he settled in Oxford as a fulltime writer in 1920, it was not until 1932 that his first book was published. At the time of his death in 1957, he was recognised as one of the leading novelists in the world.
Cary is probably best known as a novelist and especially for Mister Johnson and ‘The First Tryptych’ (Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse’s Mouth) in which the three main protagonists narrate their interlocking experiences and reveal their contrasting personalities. However he was also a fine short story writer, essayist and poet.
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