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Four Bare Legs in a Bed
Four Bare Legs in a Bed
Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies.
By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award.
By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award.
Paperback, 192 pages
Published
May 2nd 1991
by Vintage
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These short blasts of spiky black humour leave you breathless. The petty-bourgeois milieu often reminded me of VS Pritchett, updated to the 1980s, and the sly social observation of a cruder 20th-century version of Jane Austen, keenly people-watching from a corner of the room.
There are some killer first sentences here.
There are some killer first sentences here.
Mrs Brumfitt crossed the room sideways and at speed, making for the comparative obscurity of the corner chair. She was tree-limbed, with beetling unplucked eyebrows that gave her a...more
It was ok - not as good as Constitutional!
Another odd book! The title story was funny and quirky and I enjoyed Zoe and the Pedagogues despite the story being way too short but the rest were just way off beam for me.
A bit dull, really.
A good, solid short story collection with moments of brilliance - her take on childbirth is inspired and hilarious.
I read Simpson's later work before I read this collection - her later work is superb. It's been interesting to observe the progress of her writing.
I read Simpson's later work before I read this collection - her later work is superb. It's been interesting to observe the progress of her writing.
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Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first col...more
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Helen Simpson is an English novelist and short story writer. She was born in 1959 in Bristol, in the West of England, and went to a girls' school. She worked at Vogue for five years before her success in writing short stories meant she could afford to leave and concentrate full-time on her writing. Her first col...more
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