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The Present and the Past
Ivy Compton-Burnett
出版
Courier Dover Publications
, 2019-10-16
主題
Fiction / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
0486839117
9780486839110
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-vOjDwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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"Ivy Compton-Burnett is one of the most original, artful, and elegant writers of our century." — Hilary Mantel
When Cassius Clare and his first wife divorced, he insisted upon retaining custody of their two sons; he then remarried and fathered three more children. Now the first Mrs. Clare has returned after nine years' absence, begging to be allowed to visit the children. Cassius takes a malicious pleasure in granting her request, certain that she and the second Mrs. Clare will provide him with an amusing sideshow. Instead, the two women strike up a warm friendship that leaves him out in the cold — and contemplating an attention-getting suicide attempt.
Compton-Burnett was known as a writer's writer: Joyce Carol Oates called her work "Aeschylus and Sophocles funnily reinvented by Oscar Wilde"; John Waters described her books as "dark, hilarious, evil little novels"; and V. S. Pritchett, in 1955, noted she was "the most original novelist now writing in English." Discover for yourself why Compton-Burnett is treasured by such a wide range of authors.
"Precise, poised, studied, epigrammatic artistry." —
Kirkus
"Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down." — Ivy Compton-Burnett
"A rich story, told with far deeper insight and a bolder, more sure-footed appreciation of subtleties, than I think any of Compton-Burnet's contemporaries could achieve." —
The Spectator
(U.K.)