Changes and Chances by Stanley Middleton (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Changes and Chances by Stanley Middleton Psychologically acute without cant or dogma, Stanley Middleton puts before us another episode of a Human Comedy controlled and measured a la Trollope. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Psychologically acute without cant or dogma, Stanley Middleton puts before us another episode of a Human Comedy controlled and measured a la Trollope. Author Biography Stanley Middleton is the author of thirty novels, and winner of the Booker Prize. Review Middletons characters engage the reader with their cultivated chitchat and burning intensities.... Middletons tart sexual comedy of manners is a brisk roundelay of deceptions, disclosures and evasions. * Publishers Weekly * Long Description Adrian Hiller is monied, cultivated, somewhat neurotic, and used to getting what he wants when he wants it. The local theater is dependent on his money, and, at this point, on his taste and judgement. His housekeeper, Elsie Mead, has become his lover because he meant to have it that way--even as, twenty or so years ago, he seduced Alice Fowler, a girl still in college, in a manner somewhat more forceful than seductive. But the "changes and chances" mentioned in the Book of Common Prayer are indeed mans fate in this earthly existence. The theater group decides that it wants to do popular things rather than the classics, ancient and modern; Adrian makes a dignified speech, and resigns--and takes to his bed. Then Adrians friend, Stephen Youlgrave, a poet in his seventies, asks Elsie to marry him, and she agrees. And Alice Fowler, whose teenage son works part time for Adrian and whose husband works for the large corporation in which Adrian is a principal shareholder, declines to be seduced again. Changes and chances. Psychologically acute without cant or dogma, seeing a little deeper into life without apparent effort, quietly noting the details of daily living and finding drama in them, Stanley Middleton puts before us another episode of the Human Comedy, controlled and measured a la Trollope. Review Quote Middletons characters engage the reader with their cultivated chitchat and burning intensities.... Middletons tart sexual comedy of manners is a brisk roundelay of deceptions, disclosures and evasions. Details ISBN1561310042 Author Stanley Middleton Short Title CHANGES & CHANCES Pages 215 Publisher New Amsterdam Books Language English ISBN-10 1561310042 ISBN-13 9781561310043 Media Book Format Hardcover DEWEY FIC Imprint New Amsterdam Books Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Birth 1919 Death 2009 Residence ENK DOI 10.1604/9781561310043 UK Release Date 1992-11-01 AU Release Date 1992-11-01 NZ Release Date 1992-11-01 Year 1992 Audience General Publication Date 1992-09-01 US Release Date 1992-09-01 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:137153077;

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