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Pack of Cards Paperback - 1999
by Penelope Lively
As she delves into the minutiae of her characters' lives, Lively introduces the reader to slivers of the everyday world that are not always open to observation.
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Though Lively (Moon Tiger; Perfect Happiness) can be satirical, even wicked, these 36 stories (two earlier collections from England plus assorted recent stories, some published in US magazines) are mostly gentle, affectionate portraits of English men and women who muddle through. While there's a host of types and situations here, most center on village streets, petty bourgeoisie society, and academia. In truth, when a character in "Venice, Now and Then" says that "Things are so inconstant. That's the trouble," she could be speaking for most of her fictional cohorts: an aging English lady with insomnia ("The Voice of God in Adelaide Terrace"); a befuddled housewife whose "treasure" of a maid turns out to be a domineering sneak-thief ("Help"); and a professor suffering through the small humiliations of academia ("Revenant as Typewriter"), among many others. In addition to "Help," other notables include: "Nothing Missing but the Samovar," about a German Anglophile who spends a touching season with a sympathetically drawn family of shabbygenteel aristocrats at the end of their economic tether; "Corruption," a delicately textured portrait involving an aging judge, his wife, a female interloper, and a box of confiscated pornography; "The Pill Box," very short and a little metafictional ("How, having glimpsed the possibility of the impossible, can the world remain as steady as you had supposed?"); and" The Dream Merchant," a whimsical portrait of a sensible man who sells dreams from 9:30-5:00 but doesn't believe in them: "that was the secret of his success." Occasionally cloying or thin, but mostly solid work, full of character, incident, and elegiac charm. (Kirkus Reviews)
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IT WAS July when he went to Morswick, early autumn when he left it; in retrospect it was to seem always summer, those heavy, static days of high summer, of dingy weather and outbursts of sunshine, of blue sky and heaped clouds.
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- Title Pack of Cards
- Author Penelope Lively
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Printing
- Pages 336
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Grove Press, New York, NY, U.S.A.
- Date March 9, 1999
- ISBN 9780802136244 / 0802136249
- Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
- Dimensions 8.28 x 5.52 x 0.94 in (21.03 x 14.02 x 2.39 cm)
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- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Topical: Women's Interest
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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- New York Times, 04/11/1999, Page 40
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