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Sto caricando le informazioni... Fanfare for Tin Trumpets (originale 1932; edizione 2021)di Margery Sharp
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 60/2021. Fanfare for Tin Trumpets by Margery Sharp, 1932, was her second novel and another mildly satirical comedy, also one of her few novels with a male protagonist. This story is about a young man who decides to spend a year trying to be a writer, of vaguely considered novels or short stories or plays or..., after his father dies and he inherits £100. He works out a frugal budget and rents a room with a friend attending teacher training college, but then our hero falls in love with an overbudget actress. Oops. This isn't as laugh aloud funny as some of Sharp's novels but even in the early novels her astute eye for human behaviour is always amusing to me (and it's definitely more Furrowed Middlebrow than some of her later more satirical work). Quotes The English Way of Death: "On Mr. French's death he had been surprised to feel practically no sorrow, only an additional warmth of affection towards his friend; and in view of the exceptional circumstances had even managed to mention this feeling in so many words. But that was a couple of days ago, and the incident could now be considered closed." Make-up: "You want either," said Charlie Coe impartially, "to take some off or put some on. It doesn't matter which, but just now you look like a corpse." Age and dignity, or not, lol: "The sunken mouth puckered into a grin, the beady eyes sparkled, her whole aged countenance was suddenly alive with that pure bawdy gusto that makes some parts of Shakespeare so unsuitable for the use of schools." Margery Sharp's second novel. Alastair French has received a small legacy upon his father's death, and decides to use it to move to London for a year and become a writer. All goes well until the lovely Cressida appears, and all of Alastair's careful budgeting is completely set to naught. Amusing; an enjoyable light novel. Long out of print; very hard to come by. Re-publishers - take note! nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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He also made himself a weekly allowance of five shillings for cigarettes, stationery, amusements, shoe-repairs, razor-blades, laundry, toothpaste, hospitality and 'bus fares; and having thus cut his coat to his cloth, wore it in great content. The only thing he had not allowed for (and this in an author must surely be considered strange) was Love. Upon the death of his distant, unaffectionate father, Alistair French, a young store clerk, takes his small inheritance and escapes from the humdrum to a flat in London in order to Write. He and his friend Henry take cheap lodgings in a Paddington boarding-house whose denizens include the spirited, starstruck Winnie Parker, her full-throated mother, who shares Winnie's passion for films if not her admiration for Garbo ("'Olds 'erself like a sack of potatoes"), and (generally) an army of Winnie's admirers. But Alistair, faced with the many distractions of Bloomsbury and Bohemia, has considerable trouble getting any writing done. And then there's the biggest distraction of all-a lovely young actress named Cressida who is, to Alistair's chagrin, determined to marry only a man who can further her career. First published in 1932 and out of print for more than 80 years, Fanfare for Tin Trumpets is one of Margery Sharp's most irresistibly cheerful confections. This new edition features an introduction by twentieth-century women's historian Elizabeth Crawford. 'We can only hope that this charming piece of impertinence will be widely read for its fine sympathy with youth in all its shapes' Angela Thirkell Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This is a cheerful, episodic novel. Sharp's characters, even the most minor, are affectionately and ironically delineated, with a special emphasis on Winnie and the self-deluding Alistair, whose writing plans and budget are derailed when he falls in love with the ambitious young actress Cressida.
Margery Sharp's second novel, published in 1932, is delightful. ( )