Elizabeth Taylor (1912-1975): Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont, Kartoniert / Broschiert
Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
- Publisher:
- New York Review of Books, 12/2021
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781681375649
- Item number:
- 10403754
- Volume:
- 224 Pages
- Weight:
- 231 g
- Format:
- 204 x 131 mm
- Thickness:
- 15 mm
- Release date:
- 21.12.2021
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
"On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. "If it's not nice, I needn't stay," she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed. "Three elderly widows and one old man who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind" serve for her fellow residents, and there is the staff, too, and they are one and all lonely. What is Mrs. Palfrey to do with herself now that she has all the time in the world? Go for a walk. Go to the museum. Go to the end of the block. Well, she does have her grandson who works at the British Museum, and he is sure to visit any day. Mrs Palfrey prides herself on having always known "the right thing to do," but in this new situation she discovers that resource is much reduced. Before she knows it, in fact, she tries something else. Elizabeth Taylor's final and most popular novel is as unsparing as it is, ultimately, heartbreaking"--
Biography
ELIZABETH TAYLOR, geboren 1912 in Reading, lebte in Penn, Buckinghamshire. Sie war kurz Mitglied der KP, danach Anhängerin der Labour Party. Taylors erster Roman, At Mrs Lippincote s, erschien 1945. Elf weitere Romane, ein Kinderbuch und Kurzgeschichten folgten. Taylor befasst sich in ihren Werken vorwiegend mit den Facetten des Alltagslebens. 2007 verfilmte François Ozon ihren Roman Angel, der nun erstmals auf Deutsch vorliegt. Elizabeth Taylor starb am 19. November 1975. Im Dörlemann Verlag sind bisher ihre Romane Blick auf den Hafen (2011, Original 1947) und Versteckspiel (2013, Original 1951) erschienen, beide in der Übersetzung von Bettina Abarbanell. Weitere Werke sollen folgen.
