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Table Two - Softcover

Wilenski, Marjorie

 
9781913054274: Table Two
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1913054276 ISBN 13: 9781913054274
Verlag: Dean Street Press, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

“It’s awful to think that there are nine of us here to-day at this table and in six months’ time we may all be dead,” said Miss Purbeck. “There were thousands killed last night, so the bus conductor told me.”

“You certainly are our little ray of sunshine,” said Elsie scornfully.

Marjorie Wilenski’s only novel, as biting and funny as Barbara Pym at her crankiest, follows an office of women translators at the fictional Ministry of Foreign Intelligence in London as they bicker, manoeuvre, and shift allegiances just before and then in the thick of the London Blitz. Its two main characters are sharply contrasted—the clever, efficient but terminally bitter middle-aged Elsie Pearne and the cheerful, pretty young newcomer Anne Shepley-Rice, whose once affluent family has fallen on hard times. Their colleagues include a fresh air fanatic, a busybody, an inept supervisor and her trusty deputy, the dithering, chatty Mrs Jolly, and a former lady’s companion who delights in bad news and disaster.

The cast of Table Two are instantly recognizable to any office worker of today. But this portrayal of a 1940s office is a rare treasure for modern readers, showing, with vivid detail and dark humour, how a group of independent, capable women experienced some of the darkest days of World War II.

‘The most striking novel about women war workers this war has produced’ Elizabeth Bowen

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Marjorie Wilenski was born 6 June 1889. She attended the University of London just before World War I. She later married art critic and historian Reginald Wilenski, and the couple lived in St. John's Wood, London. In 1939, just before the war that provided the setting for her one novel, Table Two, she was employed at a department store. The setting of the novel itself, which followed in 1942, strongly suggests she took on important war work in London during the conflict. Marjorie Wilenski died 25 May 1965.

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Verlag
Dean Street Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1913054276
ISBN 13 
9781913054274
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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