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QUIET LIFE
QUIET LIFE
Author: Beryl Bainbridge
In the shabby, cluttered confines of their small house in an English seaside village just after World War II, a family of genteel poverty struggles daily, unremittingly, with itself. To escape the endless quarrel, the romantically disappointed mother spends half the night reading novels in the railway station, while the melancholy father weeps i...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780006540083
ISBN-10: 0006540082
Publication Date: 11/13/1986
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Book Type: Hardcover
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A book about "genteel" poverty - a family living together in the confines of a shabby English seaside home. This is a book, near perfect, in detail. The mother is so romantically disappointed...she sits in a railway station all night long, reading novels. The setting is just after the end of World War II, but the battle still goes on - at least in the life of this family.



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