_'Griselda de Reptonville did not know what love was until she joined
one of Mrs. Hatch's famous house parties at Beams, and there met
Leander...'_
_The Late Breakfasters_ (1964) was the sole novel Robert Aickman
published in his lifetime. Its heroine Griselda is invited to a grand
country house where a political gathering is to be addressed by the
Prime Minister, followed by an All Party Dance. Expecting little,
Griselda instead meets the love of her life. But their fledgling
closeness is cruelly curtailed, and for Griselda life then becomes a
quest to recapture the wholeness and happiness she felt all too
briefly.
'Those, if any, who wish to know more about me' - Aickman wrote in
1965 - 'should plunge beneath the frivolous surface of _The Late
Breakfasters_.' Opening as a comedy of manners, its playful
seriousness slowly fades into an elegiac variation on the great Greek
myth of thwarted love.
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ISBN
9780571316854
Publisert
2015
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Faber & Faber
Språk
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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