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Less Than Angels
- Narrator
- Patience Tomlinson
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Publish Date
- 4 March 2013
- Run Time
- 8 hours 28 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love triangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant.
The course of true love or academia never did run smooth.
Critics Review
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Her best [novels] are sheer delight, and all of them companionable. Quiet, paradoxical, funny and sad, they have the iron in them of permanence too
JOHN UPDIKE, NEW YORKER
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She can be seriously, hilariously funny - no other novelist has celebrated our national silliness with such exuberance
KATE SAUNDERS
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I am a huge fan of Barbara Pym
RICHARD OSMAN
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She is the rarest of treasures; she reminds us of the heart-breaking silliness of everyday life
ANNE TYLER
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Details
- Author
- Barbara Pym, Introduction by Salley Vickers
- Narrator
- Patience Tomlinson
- Duration
- 8 hours 28 minutes
- Release Date
- 4 March 2013
- ISBN
- 9781405510882
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Romance, Humorous fiction
Synopsis
Less Than Angels follows the loves, works and hopes of a group of young anthropologists. Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he begins a romance with student Deirdre Swann, so Catherine turns her attention to the reclusive anthropologist Alaric Lydgate, who has a fondness for wearing African masks. Added to this love triangle are the activities of Deirdre's fellow students and their attempts to win the competition for a research grant. The course of true love or academia never did run smooth.
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