by Barbara Pym · Virago Press Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844087235
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«An Academic Question» is Barbara Pym's comedy of manners novel, published in hardback by Virago Press (224 pages, in English).
In a university town, Caro Grimstone, an unsatisfied professor's wife, becomes entangled in her husband Alan's ambitions. When she offers to read for a blind anthropologist, Alan steals his papers: research that would bring prestige to his career and refute a colleague. A comedy of manners with a hint of mystery.
Part of the Virago Modern Classics collection and includes an introduction by Kate Saunders. Originally published in 1986.
For readers of British literary fiction and novels set in the academic world.
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.
