Novel On Yellow Paper Paperback / softback
by Stevie Smith
Part of the Virago Modern Classics series
Paperback / softback
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INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE'Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity . . . the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit' - Frances Spalding, IndependentStevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater.
In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:28/04/1980
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- ISBN:9780860681465
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Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:208 pages
- Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication Date:28/04/1980
- Category:
- ISBN:9780860681465
