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The Birthday Boys

Beryl Bainbridge
The Birthday Boys Book PDF

Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748125258

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A brilliantly realized evocation of the thoughts and voices of Captain Scott and the four men with him, who suffered extraordinary hardships before finally dying during their 1912 attempt to be the first to reach the South Pole. 'A whole lost era of fantastic courage, determination, idealism, curiosity, boyish foolishness and class mores is brought brilliantly and touchingly back by Bainbridge's penetrating psychological acumen and her superb scene and action painting...A masterly achievement, not to be missed by anyone who cherishes a strong, meaningful story beautifully told' Publishers Weekly The Birthday Boys is one of Beryl Bainbridge's most acclaimed novels, telling the story of Scott's doomed expedition through the voices of five men on the voyage. As Scott, Petty Officer Taff Evans, ship's doctor Dr Edward Wilson, Lieutenant Henry Bowers and Captain Lawrence Oates step forward for their place in the narrative, the reader is gripped by the the characters themselves alongside the vividly evoked period.

The Bottle Factory Outing

Beryl Bainbridge
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Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748125746

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The Bottle Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

Short-listed for the Booker Prize and named 'one of the greatest novels of all time' by The Observer, this riveting novel shows Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best. Freda and Brenda spend their days working in an Italian-run wine-bottling factory. A work outing offers promise for Freda and terror from Brenda; passions run high on that chilly day of freedom, and life after the outing never returns to normal. Inspired by author Beryl Bainbridge's own experiences working at a London wine-factory in the 1970s, The Bottle Factory Outing examines issues of friendship and consent, making the novel timelier than ever. Readers will be dazzled by this offbeat, haunting yet hilarious Guardian fiction prize-winning novel. 'An outrageously funny and horrifying story' Graham Greene (Observer)

The Dressmaker

Beryl Bainbridge
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Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748125739

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'The book I wish I'd written . . . Witty, chilling, every word in place' Hilary Mantel, Guardian Wartime Liverpool is a place of ration books and jobs in munitions factories. Rita, living with her two aunts Nellie and Margo, is emotionally naïve and withdrawn. When she meets Ira, a GI, at a neighbour's party she falls in love as much with the idea of life as a GI bride as with the man himself. But Nellie and Margo are not so blind...

An Awfully Big Adventure

Beryl Bainbridge
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Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748125265

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An Awfully Big Adventure by Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

'This is one of Bainbridge's best books. The close observation and hilarity are underlain by a sense of tragedy as deep as any in fiction' The Times SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE IN 1990 It is 1950 and the Liverpool repertory theatre company is rehearsing its Christmas production of Peter Pan, a story of childhood innocence and loss. Stella has been taken on as assistant stage manager and quickly becomes obsessed with Meredith, the dissolute director. But it is only when the celebrated O'Hara arrives to take the lead, that a different drama unfolds. In it, he and Stella are bound together in a past that neither dares to interpret.

A Quiet Life

Beryl Bainbridge
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Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504039918

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A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

The tragicomic tale of a dysfunctional middle-class family in postwar England from the award-winning author of Injury Time. Though the Second World War has ended, times are anything but peaceful for seventeen-year-old Alan. His father, an entrepreneur who was once able to provide the family with a comfortable life, is now struggling to put food on the table. Meanwhile, Alan’s mother dresses as if money is plentiful and spends all her time avoiding her husband, indulging in the escapism of romance novels, and engaging in real-world love affairs. And as if a household struck by poverty and marital trouble isn’t enough, Alan’s bohemian sister, Madge, has been sneaking off into the sand dunes for lusty rendezvous with a German POW. All Alan wants is for his sister to stop cavorting around and driving their father mad—and for a pretty choir girl named Janet to notice him. But the more he wishes for a normal life, the more chaotic it becomes. Everyone in his family is hiding something, not only from one another but also from themselves. And they’re all desperately clinging to something that is inevitably falling apart. Award-winning British author Beryl Bainbridge has a keen eye for the dark humor that lurks in misery and a knack for illuminating the emotional rubble of postwar England. A Quiet Life is an entertaining family drama that is at once a quick read and a lasting portrait of twentieth-century life.

Beryl Bainbridge

Brendan King
Beryl Bainbridge Book PDF

Author : Brendan King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472908544

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Beryl Bainbridge by Brendan King Pdf

Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), An Awfully Big Adventure (1990), Every Man For Himself (1996) and Master Georgie (1998), confirmed her status as one of the major literary figures of the past fifty years. A unique voice in fiction, and unforgettable in person, Beryl Bainbridge was famous for her gregarious drinking habits and her unconventional lifestyle. Yet underneath the public image of a quirky eccentric lay a complex and sometimes traumatic private life that she rarely talked about and which was often only hinted at in her novels. In this first full-length biography, Brendan King draws on a mass of unpublished letters and diaries to reveal the real woman behind the popular image. He explores Bainbridge's difficult childhood in Formby, her career as a young actress at the Liverpool Playhouse, and her life as a single mother and writer in Camden Town. Along the way he tackles her complex private life: her failed marriage to the painter Austin Davies, her affairs, and her longstanding relationship with her publisher, Colin Haycraft. This frank portrait of Beryl Bainbridge tells the story of a life that is every bit as dramatic and compelling as one of her own perfectly-crafted novels.

Master Georgie

Beryl Bainbridge
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Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786216816

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Master Georgie by Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

Master Georgie is the centripetal presence in a novel set in the time of the Crimean War. It unfolds through the narratives of three protagonists who are linked with Georgie by an incident in the past which changed their lives.

Every Man for Himself

Beryl Bainbridge
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Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609458812

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Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

If ever a subject and a writer were perfectly matched it is here. The fated voyage of the Titanic, with its heroics and horror, has been dramatized many times before, but never by an artist with the skills and sensibility of Beryl Bainbridge. Bainbridge vividly recreates each scene of the voyage, from the suspicious fire in the Number 10 coal bunker, to the champange and crystal of the first-class public rooms, to that terrible midnight chaos in the frigid North Atlantic. This is remarkable, haunting tale substantiates Bainbridge as a consummate observer of the human condition.

Understanding Beryl Bainbridge

Brett Josef Grubisic
Understanding Beryl Bainbridge Book PDF

Author : Brett Josef Grubisic
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1570037566

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Understanding Beryl Bainbridge by Brett Josef Grubisic Pdf

"In this introduction to prolific British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, Brett Josef Grubisic provides a biographical sketch of the writer, discussion of her motivations and techniques, and a detailed survey of her fiction that places the works in the traditions of British black comedy, social novels, and historical fiction. In approaching her works, Grubisic maps Bainbridge's movement from social to historical novels, beginning with the comic historicism of Young Adolf and continuing to her most recent fiction, The Birthday Boys, Every Man for Himself, Master Georgie, and According to Queeney. Grubisic holds that in portraying historical events through a variety of narrative techniques or from oblique vantage points, Bainbridge's latest novels partially ally themselves with the style and ideological concerns of literary postmodernism while still recalling the defining view of hardship established in her youth."--BOOK JACKET.

Every Man for Himself

Beryl Bainbridge
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Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Abacus Software
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Sea stories
ISBN : 0349108706

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Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways are played out the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.

According To Queeney

Beryl Bainbridge
According To Queeney Book PDF

Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780748125241

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According To Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

'A stellar literary event . . . written with panache and an enviable economy . . . the biggest risk of her literary life' Margaret Atwood According to Queeney is a masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters. The time is the 1770s and 1780s and Johnson, having completed his life's major work (he compiled the first ever Dictionary of the English Language) is running an increasingly chaotic life. Torn between his strict morality and his undeclared passion for Mrs Thrale, the wife of an old friend, According to Queeney reveals one of Britain's most wonderful characters in all his wit and glory. Above all, though, this is a story of love and friendship and brilliantly narrated by Queeney, Mrs Thrale's daughter, looking back over her life.

Another Part of the Wood

Beryl Bainbridge
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Author : Beryl Bainbridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X002244412

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Another Part of the Wood by Beryl Bainbridge Pdf

In a remote cottage in Wales two urban couples are spending their holiday with the idealistic owner and his protege. The beginning is idyllic but catastrophe lurks behind every tree.

Beryl Bainbridge

Psiche Hughes
Beryl Bainbridge Book PDF

Author : Psiche Hughes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0500516510

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Beryl Bainbridge by Psiche Hughes Pdf

Beryl Bainbridge is best known as a prolific writer of novels that ranged from black comedies of contemporary life, often autobiographical in inspiration, to idiosyncratic reimaginings of historical events and characters. This book offers a highly personal, chronological account of Beryl's life and work both her writing and her painting.

Beryl Bainbridge

Huw Marsh
Beryl Bainbridge Book PDF

Author : Huw Marsh
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780746312193

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Beryl Bainbridge by Huw Marsh Pdf

Beryl Bainbridge is one of Britain's major post-war novelists. This study analyses Bainbridge's work in relation to some of the pressing debates in post-war literary studies. It frames Bainbridge's work within her life and times, describing her unique approach to fictionalising her own past and Britain's more distant historical past. Topics covered include Bainbridge's vexed relationship with feminism; her approach to comedy; her treatment of autobiography; her interest in myth-making and national tragedy; and her un-theorised yet subtly postmodernist views about history, fiction and memory. With generous reference to Bainbridge's peers, her literary influences and those influenced by her work, Marsh identifies the major phases of Bainbridge's career, contextualising each with material from Bainbridge's journalism, essays interviews and unpublished papers. Suitable or all readers of Bainbridge's novels and including suggestions for further reading, Marsh's book combines awareness of recent literary criticism and theory with accessible, contextualised readings.

Beryl Bainbridge

Brendan King
Beryl Bainbridge Book PDF

Author : Brendan King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781472908551

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Beryl Bainbridge by Brendan King Pdf

Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), An Awfully Big Adventure (1990), Every Man For Himself (1996) and Master Georgie (1998), confirmed her status as one of the major literary figures of the past fifty years. A unique voice in fiction, and unforgettable in person, Beryl Bainbridge was famous for her gregarious drinking habits and her unconventional lifestyle. Yet underneath the public image of a quirky eccentric lay a complex and sometimes traumatic private life that she rarely talked about and which was often only hinted at in her novels. In this first full-length biography, Brendan King draws on a mass of unpublished letters and diaries to reveal the real woman behind the popular image. He explores Bainbridge's difficult childhood in Formby, her career as a young actress at the Liverpool Playhouse, and her life as a single mother and writer in Camden Town. Along the way he tackles her complex private life: her failed marriage to the painter Austin Davies, her affairs, and her longstanding relationship with her publisher, Colin Haycraft. This frank portrait of Beryl Bainbridge tells the story of a life that is every bit as dramatic and compelling as one of her own perfectly-crafted novels.