β Scribed by Christina Stead
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the βblondineβ, a woman he cannot best.
A sardonic commentary on sexual relations and war as potent as when it was first published in 1948, A Little Tea, a Little Chat holds up a mirror to the corruption and cravenness of our late-capitalist moment.
Christina Stead was born in 1902 in Sydney. Steadβs first books, The Salzburg Tales and Seven Poor Men of Sydney , were published in 1934 to positive reviews in England and the United States. Her fourth work, The Man Who Loved Children , has been hailed as a βmasterpieceβ by Jonathan Franzen, among others. In total, Stead wrote almost twenty novels and short-story collections. Stead returned to Australia in 1969 after...
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