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14 ott 2011 · "On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, Mrs. Palfrey, recently widowed, arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days. Her fellow residents are a mixed bunch -- magnificently flawed and eccentric -- living off crumbs of affection and an obsessive interest in the relentless round of hotel meals.
6 apr 2006 · Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont is, for me, her masterpiece― Robert McCrum, 'the 100 best novels', Guardian Jane Austen, Elizabeth Taylor, Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen - soul-sisters all Elizabeth Taylor is finally being recognised as an important British author: an author of great subtlety, great compassion and great depth.
- Elizabeth Taylor
25 nov 2005 · This reminded me a little of "Mrs. Caldicot's Cabbage War" (2002) as it depicts the determination of an older person not to just let their toes curl up whilst waiting for God. The recently widowed eponymous lady (Dame Joan Plowright) arrives at the residential "Claremont" hotel and is introduced to quite an eclectic clientele who are all in a similar boat.
21 dic 2021 · Books. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont. A blackly humorous story of loneliness, deception, and life in old age by one of the most accomplished novelists of the twentieth century. On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. “If it’s not nice, I needn’t stay ...
Mrs. Palfrey At The Claremont. All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer. 641 IMDb 7.6 1 h 46 min 2008. X-Ray 13+.
Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeA humorous and compassionate look at friendship between an old woman and a young man.On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining days.
21 dic 2021 · Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, in other words, isn’t simply the story of one woman’s crisis; Mrs Palfrey’s condition is the condition of England." —Ryan Napier, Jacobin “Elizabeth Taylor's exquisitely drawn character study of eccentricity in old age is a sharp and witty portrait of genteel postwar English life facing the changes taking shape in the 60s . . .
- Elizabeth Taylor
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