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MODERN CLASSICS ACCORDING TO MARK

Penelope Lively - Author
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Book: Paperback | 129 x 198mm | 224 pages | ISBN 9780141196831 | 20 Dec 2011 | Penguin Classics
MODERN CLASSICS ACCORDING TO MARK

A respected literary biographer, Mark is working on the life of Gilbert Strong - a writer about whom he thinks he knows everything. Happily married, and apparently dedicated to a life of letters, he nevertheless falls in love with Strong's granddaughter Carrie, a vague and unsophisticated young woman more interested in bedding plants than books or passion. As Mark's obsessions develop over a hot, complicated summer, he begins to understand that nothing is ever what it seems; not Gilbert Strong, and certainly not himself.

According to Mark is a witty and moving look at love, literature and the dangers of middle-aged folly.