The Sweets of Pimlico
by A. N. Wilson
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A. N. WILSON is the author of biographies on Jesus, Milton, Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis and Dante. His acclaimed histories, The Victorians and God’s Funeral, have made him an authority on Victorian-era Great Britain. A former columnist for the London Evening Standard, he now contributes to the Times Literary Supplement, New Statesman, the Spectator, the Observer and the Daily Mail.Tags
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Comic tale of a young woman who is involved in a love affair with a much older rich German emigre with an obscure and possible risque past. Vague machinations take place in the background. A conventional outcome results.
Not bad for an early novel. I've always found A.N.W. readable and enjoyable.
Not bad for an early novel. I've always found A.N.W. readable and enjoyable.
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The Sweets of Pimlico, published in 1977, was an assured and attractive first novel. It moved well. The light, fluent, shapely narrative encompassed with equal facility episodes of mannered comedy and passages of simple feeling. Here, plainly, was a writer who combined imagination and literary intelligence: but his prospects were difficult to assess because he was working in a mode which, show more while fashionable enough to be taken for granted, is both demanding and problematic. show less
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A. N. Wilson grew up in Staffordshire, England, and was educated at the Rugby School and New College, Oxford. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he holds a prominent position in the world of literature and journalism. He is a prolific and award-winning biographer and celebrated novelist. He lives in North London.
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- People/Characters
- Evelyn Tradescant; John Price; Theo Gormann
- Important places
- Pimlico, London, England, UK
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- English
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