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The Complete Book of Aunts
Rupert Christiansen
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Hardback. An aunt is not someone to be rationalised or theorised. A nice aunt is an object of easy affection, at an emotional remove from the fierce, complex, passionate and difficult love that encumbers parenthood. This book explores aunts in various guises and varieties, culled from real-life, literary and historical sources. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: VFV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 144 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338. Nice copy with clean dustwrapper
An aunt is not someone to be rationalised or theorised. A nice aunt is an object of easy affection, at an emotional remove from the fierce, complex, passionate and difficult love that encumbers parenthood: her jollity and generosity free of the terrifying fears and responsibilities that bear down on a mother. A nasty aunt tends to be one who has had surrogate maternal status forced upon her - a subject explored by Jane Austen in Mansfield Park and by P. G. Wodehouse in The Inimitable Jeeves. But whether nice or nasty, bossy, timid, disappointed or eccentric, an aunt offers her ... Read more
An aunt is not someone to be rationalised or theorised. A nice aunt is an object of easy affection, at an emotional remove from the fierce, complex, passionate and difficult love that encumbers parenthood: her jollity and generosity free of the terrifying fears and responsibilities that bear down on a mother. A nasty aunt tends to be one who has had surrogate maternal status forced upon her - a subject explored by Jane Austen in Mansfield Park and by P. G. Wodehouse in The Inimitable Jeeves. But whether nice or nasty, bossy, timid, disappointed or eccentric, an aunt offers her ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571226559
SKU
KEX0246978
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Rupert Christiansen
Rupert Christiansen is the author of several books, including The Faber Pocket Guide to Opera, Prima Donna, Romantic Affinities, Paris Babylon and The Visitors. He is opera critic and arts columnist for The Daily Telegraph, dance critic for The Mail on Sunday and a regular contributor to The Spectator. He lives in London.
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