The Sea Lady: A Late RomanceHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006 - 345 páginas This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to receive honorary degrees from a new university there--Humphrey on the train, Ailsa flying--they take stock of their lives over the past thirty years, their careers, and their shared personal entanglements. Humphrey is a successful marine biologist, happiest under water, but now retired; Ailsa, scholar and feminist, is celebrated for her pioneering studies of gender and for her gift for lucid and dramatic exposition. The memories of their lives unfold as Margaret Drabble exquisitely details the social life in England in the second half of the last century. |
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The Presentation | 1 |
Old Man Travelling | 22 |
The Bedroom Weeks | 43 |
Perfect Happiness | 221 |
The Hall of the Muses | 246 |
The Symposium | 293 |
Recessional | 321 |
The Final Curtain and the Last Tableau | 342 |
Acknowledgements | |
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