Word: thora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, the edge of the alphabet proves to be a nebulous psychological limbo whose inhabitants are all the lonely, half-crippled, emotional misfits who exist on the pallid fringes of the everyday world. It is presided over by a weird, bodiless, placeless woman, Thora Pattern, from whose papers the story purports to be taken. Roving back and forth in time, to and fro in her subjects' minds, Thora Pattern records the edge-of-the-alphabet lives of three people seen on a boat trip from New Zealand and in London after...
...knows in advance that the marriage is a mistake, but he doesn't know how awful a mistake. He doesn't know how awful it can be to live with a mother-in-law (Thora Hird) who natters even worse than her daughter, who hates him for "ruining the poor girl's life," who before six months are up has cunningly lured his wife out of his bed and back into hers. In the end the hero gets the girl back, but does he want her? Never mind. The clot is actually determined, in his decent average...