Lord Jim at Home - Paperback
by Dinah Brooke
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dinah Brooke, Moshfegh (Foreword by)Series:McNally EditionsPublish date:2023-10-03Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:McNally EditionsISBN-13:9781946022646ISBN-10:1946022640UPC:9781946022646Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, CrimeSize:8.50 x 4.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCPTN6A62K
Lord Jim at Home
"A ferocious comedy of middle-class dysfunction . . . published to controversy in 1973 . . . A masterpiece." --Claire Allfree, The Telegraph When Dinah Brooke's second novel, Lord Jim at Home, was first published in 1973, it was described as "squalid and startling," "nastily horrific," and a "monstrous parody" of upper-middle class English life. It is the story of Giles Trenchard, who grows up...
Series: McNally Editions
Language:EnglishPublisher:McNally EditionsISBN-13:9781946022646ISBN-10:1946022640UPC:9781946022646Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Psychological, CrimeSize:8.50 x 4.90 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.9502Product ID:SCPTN6A62K
Dinah Brooke left Cheltenham Ladies' College at sixteen to go to Paris, where she studied sculpture and Greek. She read English at Oxford, attended film school in London, briefly worked for a documentary film company, and spent a year in Greenwich Village. Back in London, she married, had twins, and, in the early 1970s, published four critically acclaimed novels. In 1975, she took sannyas, was...
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