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An Unsuitable Attachment : a Novel by Pym, Barbara is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>The wonderful thing about Barbara Pym is her ability to take believable characters and have them do such queer things in such a delightful way. Her legacy of seeing slightly askew gave John Updike, Anita Brookner and a whole raft of writers the courage to carry on. An Unsuitable Attachment is set in a parish outside of London. There the novel's unattached characters work out a confusing web of matchmaking and forming attachments. A new eligible bachelor in the neighborhood, Rupert Stonebird, finds himself choosing between two very different women. Sophie, the wife of the Vicar of St. Basil, becomes determined to match her sister Penelope with Rubert, a plan that would seem to work well until a graceful and quite suitable Iantha Broome also becomes a member of the community. As Rupert grapples with courting either Penelope or Iantha, Iantha finds herself with two more suitors. This elegant novel will keep readers enthralled as unsuitable and suitable attachments unfold An Unsuitable Attachment is such a book.</p> <p>The author's last novel before a fifteen-year silence finally broken in 1977. Certainly one of her best.--New York Times Book Review.</p>
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Pym, Barbara
- Publisher
- Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780525241171
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1,112 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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