Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham (1993, Paperback, Reissue) 
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham (1993, Paperback, Reissue)

 
Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham (1993, Paperback, Reissue)

Publisher: Viking Pr
Publication Date: 1993-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140185887
ISBN-13: 9780140185881
Product ID: EPID65818
Description: Edward Driffield is a writer idolized by London's literati. His second wife commissions a second-rate popular novelist named Roy Kear to write Driffield's biography. When Kear explores Driffield's past, however, he finds out about Rosie,...
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Synopsis
Edward Driffield is a writer idolized by London's literati. His second wife commissions a second-rate popular novelist named Roy Kear to write Driffield's biography. When Kear explores Driffield's past, however, he finds out about Rosie, Driffield's first wife--who is not nearly so respectable as the woman who commissioned the biography, but who despite her commonness is clearly the muse of Driffield's greatest work.

Details
Publication Date:1993-06-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
The bitter, witty novel about the business of writing focuses on the lives of a famous writer and his two contrasting wives.

Industry Reviews
"There is something bracing about the sincerity of his style. His simplicity is neither affected nor self-consciously mannered. It is the plain speaking of the man from the laboratory. It is a style that serves his general purpose of stripping life to the bone with a thin sharp knife that lays open to view the normal flesh and the healthy flow of blood as well as the cancerous sore underneath."
New York Times - L.A. Marchand (10/12/1930)

"If Edward Driffield, the misty and pathetic hero of Mr. Maugham's witty and scandalous novel, is Thomas Hardy, and everybody seems to think he is, then Mr. Maugham has made a contribution of no small importance to our understanding of Hardy. Not that he needs to be taken literally in all the details of his merciless sketch, and not that he has failed to take safe cover behind a falsification of the facts....'Cakes and Ale' is slight, very slight; but it abounds with observations and epigrams that are always clever, always bitter, and frequently wise."
Nation - Mark Van Doren (10/29/1930)

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