by Barbara Pym · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426417169
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«Jane y Prudence» is the novel by Barbara Pym, published by Lumen in 2009 in hardback (336 pages, in Spanish).
Jane Cleveland, wife of a vicar and mother of a teenager, is not a perfect housewife. Her friend Prudence Bates, attractive and elegant, is twenty-nine and has a long romantic history. Jane fears she will remain single and seeks a good match for her in 1950s England. A comedy of English middle-class life.
Translation by Ana Mata Buil. Original title: «Jane and Prudence» (1953). Part of the Lumen Narrativa collection.
For readers of classic British fiction, social humour and stories of female friendship; Barbara Pym has been compared to Jane Austen.
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.
