1949
A01=Stevie Smith
Author_Stevie Smith
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historical fiction
literary novels
literay classics
london
me again
novel on yellow paper
over the frontier
pompey casmilus
post-war classic
post-war england
post-war fiction
stevie smith
the holiday
virago
virago modern classics
vmc
women authors
Product details
- ISBN 9781844085392
- Weight: 164g
- Dimensions: 135 x 199mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2008
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb with her beloved Aunt. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love -- for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate -- moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith's poetic, special eye captured the paradox of pain in all human affections -- nowhere more so than in this wry, strongly autobiographical tale.
Stevie Smith was born in Hull and educated in London. She was both a poet and a novelist. She died in 1971.
