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Glass of Blessings  
Author: Barbara Pym
ISBN: 1559213531
Format: Handover
Publish Date: June, 2005
 
     
     
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From AudioFile
Barbara Pym successfully recreates a bygone era, class and lifestyle which few can relate to--particularly Americans. She supplies readers with a kind of time travel back to the days when the Church of England, priests, gentry, Mass, good works and gossip were the chief pastimes of village life. Jameson does a great job reading, especially with the annoying snobbishness of the main character, Wilmet Forsyth. Jameson enhances the text by handling Pym's farce and satire beautifully. An apt selection for British collections and sophisticated listeners. S.G.B. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine




Glass of Blessings

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Well dressed and looked after, Wilmet is married to Rodney, a handsome army Major, working nine thirty to six at the Ministry. Wilmet's interest wanders to the nearby Anglo-Catholic church, where at last she can neglect her comfortable household in the company of three priests and Piers Longridge.

FROM THE CRITICS

AudioFile - Susan G. Baird

Barbara Pym successfully recreates a bygone era, class and lifestyle which few can relate to particularly Americans. She supplies readers with a kind of time travel back to the days when the Church of England, priests, gentry, Mass, good works and gossip were the chief pastimes of village life. Jameson does a great job reading, especially with the annoying snobbishness of the main character, Wilmet Forsyth. Jameson enhances the text by handling Pym￯﾿ᄑs farce and satire beautifully. An apt selection for British collections and sophisticated listeners. S.G.B. ￯﾿ᄑAudioFile, Portland, Maine

     



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