A Cab at the Door & Midnight Oil - by V S Pritchett (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Two enchanting memoirs from <b>V. S. Pritchett</b>, available for the first time in a single volume</b> <p/> <i>A Cab at the Door</i>, originally published in 1968, recalls his childhood in turn-of-the-century and World War I London with the urbane subtlety and wry humor that have marked his other works. For the wild and eccentric Pritchett family, life is a series of cabs waiting at the door to transport them to a succession of ten-bob-a-week lodgings, in their flight from creditors and the financial disasters of their father. <i>A Cab at the Door</i> also captures the texture and color of the working-class side of Edwardian England. <p/> <i>Midnight Oil</i> (which Wilfrid Sheed called a "little Rolls Royce of a book" when it came out in 1972) opens in 1921: Pritchett arrives in Paris to commence with a literary career. Gradually, his creative sensibilities emerge as he travels as a reporter to Ireland, Spain, and America. <i>Midnight Oil</i> provides an intimate and precise record of a writer's discovery of himself and his art. "Pritchett is one of the great pleasure-givers in our language," said Eudora Welty.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Victor Sawdon Pritchett</b> (1900-1997) was an extraordinarly prolific and versatile man of letters, widely regarded as one of the greatest stylist in the English language.
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