Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym
An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym. 1982 Dutton, first U.S. edition, 256 pages. Pym was an English novelist, forever forgotten and rediscovered. In a retrospective in the New York Times: "However remote her themes may seem — a churn of parish politics and petty romances — beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip. " Unsuitable was discovered after her death, and was the last book written before her fifteen-year dry spell in the middle of her career.
Condition: Jacket VG, some fading to spine, book VG, some browning to top of boards
"She found it difficult to imagine him getting something for supper."
An Unsuitable Attachment by Barbara Pym. 1982 Dutton, first U.S. edition, 256 pages. Pym was an English novelist, forever forgotten and rediscovered. In a retrospective in the New York Times: "However remote her themes may seem — a churn of parish politics and petty romances — beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip. " Unsuitable was discovered after her death, and was the last book written before her fifteen-year dry spell in the middle of her career.
Condition: Jacket VG, some fading to spine, book VG, some browning to top of boards
"She found it difficult to imagine him getting something for supper."