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Cakes and Ale

Cakes and Ale

Paperback

Series: Vintage International

General FictionHistorical FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 0375725024
ISBN13: 9780375725029
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Dec 5 2000
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.19 Depth: 7.94
Language: English
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

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