An Academic Question
by Barbara Pym
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good-/Good
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About This Item
An Academic Question by Barbara Pym. 1986 Dutton, first American edition, 182 pages. Pym was an English novelist, forever forgotten and rediscovered. In a retrospective in the New York Times: "However remote her themes may seem — a churn of parish politics and petty romances — beneath the gentle surfaces of her novels is a slow-building comedy, salt wit in a saline drip. " Pym wrote thirteen novels, Academic was published posthumously.
Condition: Jacket in good condition with some wear, price clipped, book in good condition with owner name on end paper
"What jewels will you be wearing tonight, Mother?"
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- Lightholder Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 207
- Title
- An Academic Question
- Author
- Barbara Pym
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Dutton
- Date Published
- 1986
- Pages
- 182
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Editions; Fiction; Women Writers;
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