num_pages: 176
description: Quartet in Autumn is one of the books Pym wrote during the 15 years when no one would publish her, and perhaps the same kind of balance between hopelessness and inner strength helped shape this novel's story about four friends in an office nearing the age of retirement. They are people who have lived unspectacularly, but who have conjured a sense of themselves from the quartet's unity. Things start to change when two of them retire. Pym maps this ordinary strangeness of life with her particular genius for brilliant psychological insight and quiet humor that never strains for effect.
language: English
title: Quartet in Autumn
titlecomplete: Quartet in Autumn
characters: Marcia Ivory, Letty Crowe, Norman, Edwin Braithwaite
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Female Authors, Literature, Classics, Novels, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Modern Classics
ratings_count: 4873
places: London, England
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: HarperCollins Canada