Cakes and Ale

Fiction & Literature, Humorous, Historical
Cover of the book Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Author: W. Somerset Maugham ISBN: 9780307816177
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: February 8, 2012
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: W. Somerset Maugham
ISBN: 9780307816177
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: February 8, 2012
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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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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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