Angel Pavement

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He was keen to ensure that this was not another light and romantic slice of fiction, and it is much more serious and darker than its predecessor. Very good book in full blue morocco leather covers with bright gilt titles to a somewhat sunned spine. Although JBP wrote this in 1930 there's no specific refernce to all the trauma resulting from the US gettting things so wrong on a macro-econiomic scale, but the book gives a fair indication of the stresses endured by office juniors, senior clerks, middle managers and entrepreneurs et al - absolutely fascinating.

His son George seems to be employed by crooks, and Mr Golspie makes an arrangement with Mr Dersingham which strikes Smeeth as suspicious. We can’t all be reading everything that people used to think was the bee’s pyjamas and the cat’s toboggan, or whatever the saying is. His breakthrough came with the immensely popular novel The Good Companions, published in 1929, and Angel Pavement followed in 1930. You are transported back to an era of music halls and put upon accountants taking advantage of having the house to themselves so they can listen to classical music on a radio that sports a gramophone horn as an amplifier.This was a lovely book, for those who love Edwardian literature and Edwardian England and who feel a little bit of nostalgia themselves for a world where nothing was really achievable — so why try too hard? During the Second World War his regular Sunday night Postscript radio talks attracted audiences of up to 15 million listeners. He was also a founder member of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, a champion of public lending rights and represented the UK at two UNESCO conferences.

Angel Pavement is a typical City side-street, except that it is shorter, narrower, and dingier than most. Character insights are rather shallow, and yet still highly believable, the mark of a consumate story teller. This amount includes seller specified domestic postage charges as well as applicable international postage, dispatch, and other fees. The fifth chapter depicts the narrow world of the typist, Miss Matfield, and her disastrous date with Norman Birtley, which is enlivened only by an accidental meeting with Mr Golspie, who gives her a box of chocolates on a whim.Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. I have a feeling that he squared the circle; that his writing is genuinely great while refusing to pander to the supposed refinements of great literature. He looked what he ought to have been, in the opinion of a few thousand hasty and foolish observers of this life, and what he was not--a grey drudge.

This resulted in gigs much further afield supporting such acts as Geno Washington; Marmalade; Status Quo and The Move. This book appears to Priestley's first attempt at humour, not comedy, and he has a talent for psychological insight, probably from spending his life among actresses.The fourth chapter depicts one of the miserable weekends of the lonely young clerk, Mr Turgis, who wanders around London taking in any amusements he can afford.