The Way Out of Berkeley Square
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The Way Out of Berkeley Square by Rosemary Tonks
Gut-wrenching, ingenious, absolutely hilarious, this is the rediscovered story of woman's desperate quest for freedom. 'I'm thirty, and I'm stuck' Arabella is on an increasingly desperate quest for freedom from her overbearing father and her conspicuously absent brother. But her desire for self-actualisation only ends up leading her into the orbit of a happily married man. A spiky, self-conscious love affair begins, complete with awful dinner dates, devastating kisses and agonising introspection. Can Arabella realise what she wants? Can she escape the trap of being sexy, good and likable? Back in print after many decades, this is an outstanding novel by an extraordinary and little-known writer, the inimitable Rosemary Tonks. 'Salted with wit and peppered with clever images' Guardian ‘Writing like this…is far too beautiful and accomplished to be kept off the shelf. It catches like nothing else the smogs, the rodentine genes, the murky post-War grays, the lurking sexual violence of London’ Michael Hoffman, Poetry Foundation
Her writing captured the pungent, punchy essence of that city in the Swinging Sixties * Paris Review *
Nobody writes about angsty women like Tonks * The Millions *
The Tonks character is always trappedAs proud as Lucifer, and trapped. She may be on holiday in Italy with friends, or laid up with gout, she can as little escape as a character in a play can escape the footlights and the stage -- Michael Hoffman * Poetry Foundation *
Tonks was principled and ambitious about her writing, pushing a continental decadence into the oddly shaped crannies of bleak British humor * New Yorker *
Nobody writes about angsty women like Tonks * The Millions *
The Tonks character is always trappedAs proud as Lucifer, and trapped. She may be on holiday in Italy with friends, or laid up with gout, she can as little escape as a character in a play can escape the footlights and the stage -- Michael Hoffman * Poetry Foundation *
Tonks was principled and ambitious about her writing, pushing a continental decadence into the oddly shaped crannies of bleak British humor * New Yorker *
Rosemary Tonks (1928-2014) was a colourful figure in the London literary scene during the 1960s. She published two poetry collections, Notes on Cafés and Bedrooms and Iliad of Broken Sentences, and six novels, from Opium Fogs to The Halt During the Chase. Tonks wrote for the Observer, The Times, New York Review of Books, Listener, New Statesman and Encounter, and presented poetry programmes for the BBC.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781784879310 |
| ISBN 10 | 1784879312 |
| Title | The Way Out of Berkeley Square |
| Author | Rosemary Tonks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2024-05-02 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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