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SUGAR HOUSE (Virago Modern Classics)
Antonia White
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Description for SUGAR HOUSE (Virago Modern Classics)
Hardcover. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
The year is 1920, Clara Batchelor, the heroine of Frost in May and The Lost Traveller, is an actress touring with a repertory company. Now of age, she has forgotten the benevolent tyranny with which her Catholic parents treated her relationship with the actor, Stephen Tye. Yet when Stephen betrays her, Clara marries Archie, the fiance she discarded four years ago. A friendship but not a love match, this marriage proves a desperate attempt by Clara to rekindle the safety of childhood. However neither party is a child, and their dream sugar house soon begins to ... Read more
The year is 1920, Clara Batchelor, the heroine of Frost in May and The Lost Traveller, is an actress touring with a repertory company. Now of age, she has forgotten the benevolent tyranny with which her Catholic parents treated her relationship with the actor, Stephen Tye. Yet when Stephen betrays her, Clara marries Archie, the fiance she discarded four years ago. A friendship but not a love match, this marriage proves a desperate attempt by Clara to rekindle the safety of childhood. However neither party is a child, and their dream sugar house soon begins to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Virago
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780860680963
SKU
KJE0001521
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Antonia White
Antonia White was born in 1899 and educated at in London at St. Paul's and RADA. She worked as a journalist and in the Foreign Office, had four novels published and translated
Reviews for SUGAR HOUSE (Virago Modern Classics)
Absorbing, fascinating . . . written with extraordinary brilliance
Elizabeth Bowen
Antonia White evinces Clara's breakdown, particularly the isolation and emptiness she experiences, with extraordinary economy and insight
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Elizabeth Bowen
Antonia White evinces Clara's breakdown, particularly the isolation and emptiness she experiences, with extraordinary economy and insight
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY