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e-Book No Fond Return of Love (Plume Fiction) download

e-Book No Fond Return of Love (Plume Fiction) download

by Barbara Pym

ISBN: 0452269202
ISBN13: 978-0452269200
Language: English
Publisher: Plume (December 1, 1992)
Pages: 256
Category: Genre Fiction
Subategory: Literature

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Home Barbara Pym No Fond Return of Love. Odd, her love of trinkets, he thought. She was in so many ways not that kind of person.

Home Barbara Pym No Fond Return of Love. Even the word ‘trinket’, with its gay and slightly silly associations, seemed in-appropriate to her. It suited Marjorie much better, but at her he dared not look. She did not appear to be in the least upset. Perhaps love for somebody totally unsuitable dies more completely, when it does die, than any other kind of love. Aylwin himself could not recapture the smallest vestige of his feelings for her - even the stone squirrel seemed ridiculous and embarrassing when associated with Marjorie. Those who had found no seat lay sprawled on the grass, some prudently on newspapers or macintoshes, others not caring or asking themselves if the grass might be damp after yesterday’s rain

Home Barbara Pym No Fond Return of Love. No fond return of love, . Those who had found no seat lay sprawled on the grass, some prudently on newspapers or macintoshes, others not caring or asking themselves if the grass might be damp after yesterday’s rain. And among these last he had suddenly noticed Viola Dace, sitting upright, her hands clasped around her knees, her face raised to the sun. Dulcie, therefore, had been careful to avoid any dish containing these ‘love apples’, as she now called them to herself, saying over the phrase ‘Aylwin can’t take love apples’ with a good deal of enjoyment

Home Barbara Pym No Fond Return of Love. Dulcie, therefore, had been careful to avoid any dish containing these ‘love apples’, as she now called them to herself, saying over the phrase ‘Aylwin can’t take love apples’ with a good deal of enjoyment. But she had not repeated it to Viola, who did not seem to be amused by such trivialities. What are you going to wear?’

Home Barbara Pym No Fond Return of Love. For information address E. P Dutton, In. Two Park Avenue, New York, . No fond return of love. Dulcie was less interested in their whereabouts than in the idea of Mrs Forbes bottling gooseberries, which she found impossible to imagine. But Dulcie,’ Viola persisted, ‘if they aren’t eating in the dining-room, where are they eating? I suppose they’ve gone ou.

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Classics Contemporary Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Literary Literature & Fiction Romance . I thought I had read all of Pym's novels, but then realized that I had somehow missed No Fond Return of Love.

Classics Contemporary Fiction Friendship Genre Fiction Historical Literary Literature & Fiction Romance Women's Fiction. More by Barbara Pym. A Glass of Blessings, Jane and Prudence, Less Than Angels. That the story revolves around the incredibly patient and self-effacing folks who compose academic bibliographies (in the days when it was all done by hand), is a stroke of comic genius.

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Barbara Pym is, for me, one of the best writers that I have ever read. She has a way of making every day life in little British towns seem so interesting and enthralling that I never want to leave.

The Barbara Pym Cookbook, which shows readers how to recreate the English teas and dinners featured in Pym’s fiction, is the . I read and reread Barbara Pym so often that my copy of No Fond Return of Love was in tatters-so I needed to get another copy.

The Barbara Pym Cookbook, which shows readers how to recreate the English teas and dinners featured in Pym’s fiction, is the perfect companion for devoted fans. No description of plot does justice to any book by Pym-you need to experience her books firsthand- " there are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual. First published in 1961 No Fond Return is timeless in its exploration of love lost and love found.

Dulcie Mainwaring's friend Viola is besotted by Dr Aylwin Forbes, so surely it isn't prying if she helps things along? Aylwin, however, is smitten by Dulcie's young niece. And perhaps Dulcie herself is falling, just a little, for Aylwin.
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Usanner
Pym fans are aware that she published six novels between 1950 and 1961 and then suffered a drought until QUARTET IN AUTUMN was released in 1977. This was her last novel before publishers dropped her and it certainly doesn't foreshadow her coming problems. This one is so very much a "Pym" book and her joy and confidence in her work is never more evident. It's full of insider jokes: her first novel (SOME TAME GAZELLE) in Dulcie's bathroom, four characters from A GLASS OF BLESSINGS showing up to advance the plot, and even an appearance by the author herself in a hotel dining room. "...but as she was a woman of about forty, ordinary-looking and unaccompanied, nobody took much notice of her." No one connected her with the books that they read and enjoyed and so continued eating, "quite unconscious that they were being observed."

Observation is a major theme of the book and Dulcie (although she does indexes and isn't a "creative" writer) is an avid people-watcher. Sometimes her hobby becomes almost an obsession and she'll go to great (and very amusing) lengths to get information about those she becomes interested in. She worries that she prefers the role of observer to that of an active participant in life, but she also realizes the advantages of remaining aloof. She's an unusual character - conventional, but eccentric; shy, but totally lacking in self-consciousness. I think that Pym put a great deal of herself into Dulcie and she's an appealing heroine.

There's "romance" although sometimes it's not very romantic. Although a plain woman and a life-long spinster, Pym was usually "involved" (that's the term her biographical information uses, so I'll adopt it) with some man or another. She believed that happiness is not just for the young, model-beautiful heroine marrying the handsome billionaire, but for all of us. When her characters find love, it's particularly satisfying for us, because we see ourselves in them. Her novels are books to be savored and re-read.

Hulbine
I read and reread Barbara Pym so often that my copy of No Fond Return of Love was in tatters-so I needed to get another copy.
No description of plot does justice to any book by Pym-you need to experience her books firsthand- " there are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual ." First published in 1961 No Fond Return is timeless in its exploration of love lost and love found.

Magis
Jilted by her fiancé (because he says she is "too good" for him), Dulcie Mainwaring has little to link her to the rest of the world. Although she has inherited a large Victorian house from her parents, she has no relatives, few friends, and a classic Barbara Pym job as an index compiler for scholarly authors; all she has to connect her to the rest of the world are the little fantasies she spins about those who lives are contingent to her own. And thus when she attends a book conference and becomes fascinated by a handsome married older author, Aylwin Forbes, and befriends the woman with whom he had an affair, Viola Dace, Dulcie finds a way to give new shape and direction for her life.

One of Pym's most inventive comedies, NO FOND RETURN OF LOVE is much concerned with the way in which we invent stories about the people whom we live near, and how those fantasies can be even more sustaining for than our actual relations with these people. Dulcie and Viola become stalkers of Aylwin Forbes with little compunction or fear; it seems perfectly natural to them to base their friendship on trading information they've unearthed about him or on staking out his mother-in-law's house together. But most of the other characters are themselves fantasists too: Aylwin has constructed plans of his own around Dulcie's niece Laurel, for example. The novel is an extended commentary on metafiction, and thus it seems of little surprise when other characters from Pym's previous novels begin popping up for little cameos at the novel's end (though this does go on for too long), as does Pym herself. While not as funny as LESS THAN ANGELS nor as beautifully constructed as EXCELLENT WOMEN, this remains one of Pym's best books.

Moswyn
Not my favorite of Pym’s novels, but a beautifully crafted, carefully observed , and very funny book. Even a lesser Pym is a wonderful read, as comforting as a cup of tea. In Pym’s ordered but always interesting world, the heroine Dulcie, though not beautiful or in her first blush of youth, proves that even ordinary women can gain love.

Tinavio
We often say we wish people were as polite now as they were in the 1950s, but we forget the downside: that politeness on our parts would be necessary & that would be inconvenient. But on further reflection, it might be good for us, as it was for Dulcie. She didn't really want her niece to move in, but thought she owed it to her sister, & it livened her life a little. She really, really didn't want Viola as a boarder, either, but Viola became a co-conspirator in investigating Aylwin.

For me, one of the tests of a good book is wondering what might happen afterwards to the characters. Will Viola's husband-to-be be sorry he married someone who can't cook & is a sloppy housekeeper? Will Dulcie be able to forget that Aylwin was interested in her niece? and so on

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