Civil to Strangers and Other Writings (Paperback)

from byzanne

An enjoyable collection of short fiction by Pym. Very witty but often there is a little bit of sadness underlying it, or maybe that is me? I especially liked Adam, the husband in the novel the collection is named for. In a longer piece, he might have got a bit tiresome, so the length is perfect. ...

from byzanne

An enjoyable collection of short fiction by Pym. Very witty but often there is a little bit of sadness underlying it, or maybe that is me? I especially liked Adam, the husband in the novel the collection is named for. In a longer piece, he might have got a bit tiresome, so the length is perfect. ...

from michaelm42071

This a posthumous collection of one short novel or novella (the title piece, 170 pages in this edition) and some shorter pieces, introduced by Hazel Holt and copyrighted by Hilary Walton. Civil to Strangers is about Cassandra Marsh-Gibbon, one of Pym's admirable women, and her selfish husband Ada...

from brenzi

Barbara Pym wrote the short novel Civil to Strangers in 1936 when she was twenty-three years old, although it wasn't published until after her death in 1980. Her wry, astute observations of a married couple's problems reveals her early adroitness at analyzing the psychology of the female characte...

from pgchuis

I stopped before the 'Other Writings'. It seems to me that Pym's novels fall into two categories; they are either light-hearted and full of wry humour, or they are more cynical and almost snide. 'Civil to Strangers' falls firmly into the second category. Cassandra had no real personality and her ...