An academic question
By: Barbara Pym ; introduction by Kate Saunders
Series: Virago modern classics; Virago modern classics
Publisher: Virago
Published: 2012
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844087235; 9780748128112
Subjects: Married women; Fiction
Description: A delightful comedy of manners with a touch of mystery, An Academic Question is prime Barbara Pym territory. In a provincial university town Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband Alan's ambitions. When she volunteers as a reader to a blind, esteemed anthropologist, Alan seizes the opportunity to steal his papers research that could both advance his reputation while refuting the findings of a respected colleague.