A Little Tea, a Little Chat

✍ Scribed by Stead, Christina

• Book ID: 109278877
• Publisher: The Text Publishing Company
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 328 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781925355727

✦ Synopsis

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 ‘blondine’, 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. Stead’s 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 ‘masterpiece’ by Jonathan Franzen, among others. In total, Stead wrote almost twenty novels and short-story collections. Stead returned to Australia in 1969 after...