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Vintage Books
December 2000
On Sale: December 5, 2000
320 pages
ISBN: 0375725024
EAN: 9780375725029
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Non-Fiction
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 (and
unlikely first wife), 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.
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