false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182522248m/1287594.jpg 1287594 5 <p>“A brilliant, bittersweet upstairs-downstairs comedy.”—<em>Guardian</em></p> <p>It is a brisk English March day, and Dolly is getting ready to marry the wrong man. Waylaid by the sulking admirer who lost his chance, an astonishingly oblivious mother bustling around and making a fuss, and her own sinking dread, the bride-to-be struggles to reach the altar.</p> <p><em>Dolly knew, as she looked round at the long wedding-veil stretching away forever, and at the women, too, so busy all around her, that something remarkable and upsetting in her life was steadily going forward.</em></p> 1276670 1932 Cheerful Weather for the Wedding total:39|5:2|4:13|3:18|2:5|1:1| 39 127 125 11 3 1 false false Sat May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 06:45:23 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 10 06:57:31 -0700 2008 Persephone Books, a British publisher that specializes in bringing women's work from the 1920s and 1930s back into print. This one is proto-Woolfian (that's not quite fair to say, perhaps, because Woolf had already done some of her best work by the time this book was published.) I...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sun May 31 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 14:39:40 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 14:51:16 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Wed Aug 19 00:03:02 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 03:39:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 04:56:25 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 10:45:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 2 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 22:17:12 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 22:18:31 -0700 2009
Apparently this was required reading for New Yorker staffers at some point in the last few decades. I think this reflects poorly on the New Yorker.

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