Sweet William

Name: Sweet William
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ISBN: 9781844088621

Beryl Bainbridge, Alex Clark

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English

Virago
30 April 2013

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

Series: Virago Modern Classics

'People came in and out, chairs were moved, dishes gathered up on trays, but it was happening at a great distance; she concentrated entirely on his pink face crowned with foppish curls.'

Genteel, passive Ann works for the BBC in London and is engaged to a successful academic, fulfilling her snobbish mother's ambitions - more or less - while the Swinging Sixties happen elsewhere, to other people. Then she meets William: snub-nosed and generous, cunning and protean. She is first seduced, then transfixed, as William's past, present and future swirl around her kaleidoscopically, overwhelmingly, and Ann is herself irrevocably, and irreparably, changed.

By: Beryl Bainbridge
Introduction by: Alex Clark
Imprint: Virago
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 140g
ISBN: 9781844088621
ISBN 10: 1844088626
Series: Virago Modern Classics
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 30 April 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unknown

Beryl Bainbridge (1932-2010) wrote eighteen novels, two travel books and five plays for stage and television. Five of her novels were shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Every Man for Himself and Injury Time won the Whitbread Prize, The Bottle Factory Outing won the Guardian Fiction Prize and Master Georgie won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Four of her novels including An Awfully Big Adventure were adapted for film. In 2011, Bainbridge was honoured posthumously with a special Best of Beryl Man Booker Prize in recognition of her outstanding career. Her final novel, The Girl in the Polka-dot Dress, was published in 2011.