I want /

Autor: Henri, Adrian
ISBN: 9780224007603
OKCZID: 129500147

Anotace

I want is the story of a love affair lasting more than fifty years. Meeting as adolescents in a Liverpool bookshop – he a brilliant scholarship boy, she a convent schoolgirl – Albert Hodgkin and Dolly Argyle begin a secret summer courtship. As the cultural difference between them is an erotic stimulant, so it is also a barrier, infusing their relationship with intense excitement yet always preventing its fulfilment. A good redbrick degree fails to secure Albert an academic job, and he settles for factory employment and unemployment, marriage, holidays in Blackpool and Milford Haven. Dolly spends a year in France, embarks on the London season, sleeps with the rich and famous, travels to Fez and Moscow. Letters, postcards and infrequent meetings sustain a long and constant attachment which outlasts war and social change – yet never matures into commitment. I Want is a dialogue between two characters – and two writers. As to be expected from this exhilarating partnership of poet and novelist, the book is both lyrical and compelling to read. Its unusual structure – fragments of correspondence and conversation, different social perspectives in the narrative – heightens its pathos and its poetry. Nell Dunn was born in London in 1936 and educated in a convent. Her first book, Up the Junction, sold over half a million copies and was filmed for both television and cinema. Her subsequent books include Talking to Women (a series of interviews with women) and Poor Cow (a bestseller that became a major film).

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