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A Few Green Leaves by Barbara Pym. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, , In A FEW GREEN LEAVES the author combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with many of the themes- and even some of the characters- of her later ones. Switching points of view among many characters, she builds with accumulating effect the picture of life in a town forgotten by time yet affected dramatically by it/5(K). In , Barbara Pym began working on what would end up being her final novel, A Few Green Leaves. She was at the height of her career, after having been rediscovered by the public only two years earlier, and was for the first time in her life, if not a household name, certainly a minor literary celeb.

Barbara Mary Crampton Pym (2 June - 11 January ) was an English novelist. In the s she published a series of social comedies, of which the best known are Excellent Women () and A Glass of Blessings (). In her career was revived when the critic Lord David Cecil and the poet Philip Larkin both nominated her as the most under-rated writer of the century. "A Few Green Leaves" is one of Barbara Pym's best novels. It is full of characters familiar to readers of Pym's other novels; rectors, widows, spinsters, eccentrics, anthropologists and a cat lady. There is romance, but in true Pym fashion it is not always suitable. It is subtly funny and poignantly sad, often at the same time. A Few Green Leaves (Paperback) Published September 29th by Dutton Books. Paperback, pages. Author (s): Barbara Pym. ISBN: X (ISBN ) Edition language: English.

In , Barbara Pym began working on what would end up being her final novel, A Few Green Leaves. She was at the height of her career, after having been rediscovered by the public only two years earlier, and was for the first time in her life, if not a household name, certainly a minor literary celeb. A FEW GREEN LEAVES. PYM, BARBARA. Book. English. Published MACMILLAN, Available at Coleraine CC. Coleraine CC – 1 on shelf at: PRY5F4 Barcode Shelfmark. A Few Green Leaves. by. Barbara Pym. · Rating details · 1, ratings · reviews. In A FEW GREEN LEAVES the author combines the rural settings of her earliest novels with many of the themes- and even some of the characters- of her later ones. Switching points of view among many characters, she builds with accumulating effect the picture of life in a town forgotten by time yet affected dramatically by it.