by Barbara Pym · Livros Cotovia · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789729013270
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«A Doce Pomba Morreu» is the novel by Barbara Pym, published by Livros Cotovia in paperback (180 pages, in Portuguese).
Leonora Eyre is a mature, attractive and selfish woman. She strikes up a friendship with the antiquarian Humphrey Boyce and his nephew James, and prefers the young James to the more suitable candidate, Humphrey; the arrival of Phoebe and then Ned complicates the relationships. The novel, with echoes of Keats, Milton and Henry James, deals with desire, admiration and the urge for control.
The original work is from 1979; this 1991 Portuguese edition includes a translation by Cecília de Moura.
Suitable for readers of classic British fiction and character-driven novels with irony.
Barbara Mary Crampton Pym was an English novelist. In the 1950s, she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women (1952) and A Glass of Blessings (1958). After a period of rejection by publishers, her career was revived in 1977 when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin nominated her as the most underrated writer of the previous 75 years. Her novel Quartet in Autumn (1977) was nominated for the Booker Prize that year, and she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
