9780860680673

The Holiday

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780860680673

Paperback|9780860680673


Overview

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.

ISBN-13

9780860680673

ISBN-10

0860680673

Weight

0.35 Pounds

Dimensions

5.00 x 0.57 x 7.70 In

List Price

$13.00

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

224 pages

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Published On

2001-06-01



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