Saturday Lunch with the Brownings [electronic resource]
Penelope Mortimer2020
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'Family life is Mortimer's subject . . . she picks it apart with precise, swift,
sharp strokes.' -- Lucy Scholes, Paris Review
First published in 1960, Penelope Mortimer's only collection of short stories
lays bare the fury and despair that lurk beneath the surface of everyday
domestic life.
A mother and her young son arrive at a rental house in rural France only to find
themselves locked out; a fractious family of five try and get through a Saturday
at home together; a publisher with a penchant for parties reconnects with an old
acquaintance who's the life and soul; and a woman in a maternity ward is an
unwitting witness to a disturbing drama behind the hospital curtains next to
her.
Sharp, unsettling, and darkly humorous, Saturday Lunch with the Brownings is
fiction drawn from life that unerringly captures the complexities and cruelties
of family dynamics.
'No one knows better how to catalogue in easy narrative the minutiae of domestic
life or how to undermine ...
Main title:
Saturday Lunch with the Brownings [electronic resource] / Penelope Mortimer
Author:
Penelope Mortimer, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Daunt Books, 2020
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781911547730
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
433655
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| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Online | Online resource (Member logon) | indyreads - eBook |