Less than angels / Barbara Pym.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Open Road Media, [2013]Copyright date: ©1955Description: 223 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781480408074
- 1480408077
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Fiction | Pym, Barbara | Available | 33111009281490 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A tale of a woman's romantic entanglements with two anthropologists--and the odd mating habits of humans--from the author of Jane and Prudence .
Catherine Oliphant writes for women's magazines and lives comfortably with anthropologist Tom Mallow--although she's starting to wonder if they'll ever get married. Then Tom drops his bombshell: He's leaving her for a nineteen-year-old student.
Though stunned by Tom's betrayal, Catherine quickly becomes fascinated by another anthropologist, Alaric Lydgate, a reclusive eccentric recently returned from Africa. As Catherine starts to weigh her options, she must figure out who she is and what she really wants.
With a lively cast of characters and a witty look at the insular world of academia, this novel from the much-loved author of Excellent Women and other modern classics is filled with poignant, playful observations about the traits that separate us from our anthropological forebears--far fewer than we may imagine.
Originally published in 1955 by J. Cape, London.
Describes a community of anthropologists, including Tom Mallow, a researcher who divides his private life between two women.