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Cakes and Ale

W. Somerset Maugham

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse , Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

Language: English

Pages: 308

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: December 05, 2000

ISBN: 0375725024

ISBN 13: 9780375725029

Cakes and Ale

W. Somerset Maugham

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse , Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

Language: English

Pages: 308

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: December 05, 2000

ISBN: 0375725024

ISBN 13: 9780375725029

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