Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
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Our Spoons Came From Woolworths by Barbara Comyns
Barbara Comyns' delightful classic novel set in bohemian 1930s London with an introduction by Maggie O'Farrell.
For anyone who is interested in stories of everyday concerns, poverty, marriage, love, happiness, fulfilment, peace or joy, this is the book for you -- Snowswick * Guardian *
A curious hybrid: a mixture of domestic disaster, social commentary, comedy, and romance. . What I find so really excellent in this novel, in addition to Comyns's powers of description and the slow fuse of her comedy, is her ability to show the cold world and its indecencies without spelling everything out . . . -- Katherine A. Powers * Barnes & Noble Review *
Comyns's world is weird and wonderful . . . there's also something uniquely original about her voice. Tragic, comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius -- Lucy Scholes * Observer *
I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was . . . Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else -- Maggie O'Farrell
A curious hybrid: a mixture of domestic disaster, social commentary, comedy, and romance. . What I find so really excellent in this novel, in addition to Comyns's powers of description and the slow fuse of her comedy, is her ability to show the cold world and its indecencies without spelling everything out . . . -- Katherine A. Powers * Barnes & Noble Review *
Comyns's world is weird and wonderful . . . there's also something uniquely original about her voice. Tragic, comic and completely bonkers all in one, I'd go as far as to call her something of a neglected genius -- Lucy Scholes * Observer *
I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was . . . Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else -- Maggie O'Farrell
Born in 1909 at Bidford-on-Avon, Barbara Comyns was educated mainly by governesses until she went to art schools in Stratfordupon-Avon and London. She started writing fiction at the age of ten and her first novel, Sisters by a River, was published in 1947. She also worked in an advertising agency, a typewriting bureau, dealt in old cars and antique furniture, bred poodles, converted and let flats, and exhibited pictures in The London Group. She was married first in 1931, to an artist, and for the second time in 1945. With her second husband she lived in Spain for eighteen years. She died in 1992.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781844089277 |
| ISBN 10 | 1844089274 |
| Title | Our Spoons Came From Woolworths |
| Author | Barbara Comyns |
| Series | Virago Modern Classics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2013-07-04 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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