Boomerang
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Condition remarks: loose binding near FEP - pages still intact. Faded spine. Tears along folds of binding spine.
A sharp and witty collection of short fiction, Boomerang presents nine stories that chronicle the comic and quietly desperate rhythms of modern middle-class life in Britain. Helen Simpson trains her incisive eye on the pressures of parenthood, environmental anxiety, and the relentless passage of time, illustrating how ordinary lives are shaped — and sometimes warped — by forces both intimate and global. Written with a precise, darkly humorous voice, the stories capture characters caught between good intentions and human frailty, often returning, boomerang-like, to the same inescapable tensions. Simpson's prose is economical yet richly observed, delivering emotional weight in compact, perfectly crafted scenes that linger long after the final page.
Author: Helen Simpson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1932, William Heinemann Ltd
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Poor
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Bumping on spine and corners. Rubbed edges.
Condition remarks: loose binding near FEP - pages still intact. Faded spine. Tears along folds of binding spine.
A sharp and witty collection of short fiction, Boomerang presents nine stories that chronicle the comic and quietly desperate rhythms of modern middle-class life in Britain. Helen Simpson trains her incisive eye on the pressures of parenthood, environmental anxiety, and the relentless passage of time, illustrating how ordinary lives are shaped — and sometimes warped — by forces both intimate and global. Written with a precise, darkly humorous voice, the stories capture characters caught between good intentions and human frailty, often returning, boomerang-like, to the same inescapable tensions. Simpson's prose is economical yet richly observed, delivering emotional weight in compact, perfectly crafted scenes that linger long after the final page.