P H Newby SOMETHING ABOUT WOMEN First Edition
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P H Newby SOMETHING ABOUT WOMEN First Edition
First UK edition, first print hardback of SOMETHING ABOUT WOMEN, by P. H. Newby and published by Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1995.
The book is in near fine condition (Clean black cloth boards with gold lettering on the spine) with only minor shelf wear to the dust jacket, which is not price clipped. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
Percy Howard Newby CBE was an English novelist and broadcasting administrator. He was sent to France, to fight in the war as a private, in a Medical Corps Unit. He was released from duty in December 1942, and taught English Literature at Fouad 1st University, Cairo. When A Journey into the Interior, was published in 1946, he returned to England to write. In the same year he was given an Atlantic Award in literature, and two years thence he received the Somerset Maugham Prize. He was the first winner of the Booker Prize, his novel Something to Answer For having received the inaugural award in 1969. He was given a CBE for his work as Managing Director of BBC Radio. P H Newby died in 1997.
"Owen Bark, an Anglican clergyman, is unlucky with women. As a boy he had been bullied by an older sister and now, in his retirement, she still bullies him. His wife, taking their eight-year-old daughter, ran off with an American physicist. And when the time came for him to have his pocket picked it was, of course, by a young woman.
In spite of all this he idolises women, just as he had idolised his own mother, not so much for what she was, but for what she remained in his imagination as a young woman he had once seen in a painting. He carries his idealisation so far as to be against the ordination of women. This may seem a paradox, but he cannot accept that women are the same as men: they have a special glory of their own and to ordain them as priests would be the ultimate denial of that difference. His rejoicing over it is the great irony of his own life.
When the long-lost daughter Charlotte arrives in London with her American husband she tracks Owen down, much to his joy. He becomes involved in her affairs in a way no-one could have foreseen. Her husband has an illegitimate Czech son who fastens on Charlotte as a substitute for the mother he had to leave behind in Prague. Owen senses this as almost part of his own life.
Something About Women is a delightful novel - about affection, love, innocence and experience - by a very readable and subtle writer who won the first Booker Prize."
191 pages.
ISBN: 0233 98911 0
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