'You start alone, you finish alone,' she says: 'It's fine to be alone, it's a revelation, truth at last.' This is the story of Almayer Jenkin's progress through life, from a motherless childhood through adult love affairs and her own experience of motherhood. In this novel, vivid and spare, touching and comic, A. L. Barker draws a fine portrait of Almayer and the diverse people she meets and lives among. 'I know nothing of A. L. Barker, except that she writes like an angel and I love her.' Auberon Waugh 'A novel that ...
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'You start alone, you finish alone,' she says: 'It's fine to be alone, it's a revelation, truth at last.' This is the story of Almayer Jenkin's progress through life, from a motherless childhood through adult love affairs and her own experience of motherhood. In this novel, vivid and spare, touching and comic, A. L. Barker draws a fine portrait of Almayer and the diverse people she meets and lives among. 'I know nothing of A. L. Barker, except that she writes like an angel and I love her.' Auberon Waugh 'A novel that deserves to be cherished, as A. L. Barker so plainly cherishes her characters. She has a rare ability to illuminate the remarkable qualities of commonplace things, and a profound sympathy for us all, liable as we all are to being knocked over by very little at any time.' New York Magazine
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Fine in fine jacket. First printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Fine (bit of light foxing to the edges of the text block) in fine, lightly toned dust jacket. Hardcover. 234 pp. Fiction. "This is the storyh of Almayer Jenkin's progress through life...[a] finely drawn portrai tof Almayer herself and the diverse people she meets and lives among.." A.L. (Audrey Lilian) Barker (d. 2002) was an English novelist and short story writer; she won the first Somerset Maugham Award in 1947 and was short listed for the Booker Prize in 1970.
