A Little Tea, a Little Chat

Christina Stead, David Malouf

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English

Text Publishing Company
03 October 2016

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

Series: Text Classics

Ever since his early manhood, since his marriage, he had bought women; most had been bargains and most had made delivery at once. He never paid in advance: ‘I got no time for futures in women’.

New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the ‘blondine’, a woman he cannot best.

A sardonic commentary on sexual relations and war as potent as when it was first published in 1948, A Little Tea, a Little Chat holds up a mirror to the corruption and cravenness of our late-capitalist moment.

By: Christina Stead
Introduction by: David Malouf
Imprint: Text Publishing Company
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 41mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9781925355727
ISBN 10: 1925355721
Series: Text Classics
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 03 October 2016
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for A Little Tea, a Little Chat

'[Christina Stead] is really marvellous.' Saul Bellow 'Stead is of that category of fiction writer who restores to us the entire world, in its infinite complexity and inexorable bitterness, and never asks if the reader wishes to be so furiously enlightened and instructed, but takes it for granted that this is the function of fiction.' -- Angela Carter London Review of Books 'I cannot see how anyone can deny Miss Stead's position as the most extraordinary woman novelist produced by the English-speaking race since Virginia Woolf.' New Yorker