by Barbara Pym · LUMEN · tapa dura · ISBN 9788426417602
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«Los hombres de Wilmet» is the novel by Barbara Pym, published by Lumen in hardback (352 pages, in Spanish).
Wilmet Forsyth lives a comfortable and boring marriage with Rodney, a civil servant more concerned with work than with her. To distract herself, she attends Portuguese classes taught by Piers Longridge and fantasizes about an affair, while Barbara Pym ironically portrays the customs of the English bourgeoisie of the 1950s.
Work originally published in 1958 under the title «A Glass of Blessings»; Spanish translation by Ana Mata Buil.
For readers of classic fiction and British narrative who appreciate ironic humor and portraits of customs.
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.
