Excellent Women - Barbara Pym (light wear) Russell Hoban text in English and Italian

text in English and Italian

and wrote two novels

a major influence on his writing

according to Roberta Smith

Excellent Women - Barbara Pym (light wear) Russell Hoban text in English and ItalianExcellent Women by Barbara Pym ISBN 9780143104872 231 page paperback published by Penguin Classics (I think I've read this book three times.) *** The finest introduction to Barbara Pym (The New York Times): a hilarious comedy of manners by the shrewdly observant British novelist often compared to Jane Austen One of Barbara Pyms richest and most amusing high comedies, Excellent Women has at its center Mildred Lathbury, a clergymans daughter and a mild