Word: sorrowful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Early sorrow, in the death of her mother and two brothers while she was in her 203, shadowed Compton-Burnett's life and doubtless her fiction. A lonely woman, especially since the death of her companion, Journalist Margaret Jourdain, in 1951, she is no recluse. She is a theatergoer and relishes the Angry Young Men. Modern art, on the other hand, baffles her: "Recently I went to an exhibition of sculpture and saw what I thought was a swordfish. But I was told it was a family going out for a walk." Actually, this is a rather apt description...
Strike for a Kingdom, by Menna Gallic. Welsh coal miners strike, and so does a murderer in this sorrow-laced, comic novel by a woman who writes well...