Name: The Sweet Dove Died (en Inglés)
SKU: 64620565
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Author: Barbara Pym

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

New York Review Books

Autor

Barbara Pym

Año

2025

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

20.32x12.7x1.27 cm

ISBN13

9781681379753

The Sweet Dove Died (en Inglés)

Barbara Pym (Autor) · New York Review Books · Tapa Blanda

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An acidly funny novel about a woman who falls for a much younger man by one of Britain's great writers of social comedy, now back in print.

A lesser-known, darker sister to Barbara Pym's Excellent Women.

The Sweet Dove Died is one of Barbara Pym's last novels, in which her work took on a new, keen edge. It is about a woman's attachment to a man much younger than herself. Beautiful and self-absorbed, Leonora Eyre has a passion for collecting Victorian objects and is coolly indifferent towards everything outside of her fastidious, elegant existence. When she is courted by Humphrey, a widowed antiques dealer, she disdains his advances, preferring rather the attentions of his twenty-four-year-old nephew, James.

Leonora’s possession of James is challenged, however, first by Phoebe, a bookish young woman his own age, and then by the suave and seductive Ned, a visiting American professor with whom James quickly becomes infatuated. Pym’s sharp eye for comedy and shrewd observation of English manners are on full display in this finely wrought novel of love, loss, and all the hopes and disappointments that befall the human heart.