Beryl Bainbridge (1934-2010) was a British novelist known for her concise, dark comedies, such as "The Dressmaker" (1973), which often feature innocent characters facing escalating, violent situations.
Beryl Bainbridge (1934-2010) was a novelist whose works, like "The Dressmaker" (1973), are characterized as short, terse black comedies with grotesque violence.
| Front | Beryl Bainbridge |
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| Back | 1934-2010 novelist her claustrophobic novel, a Quite Life 1976. her best novels , The Dressmaker 1973, The Bottle Factory Outing 1974 and Injury Time 1977, are short, terse black comedies in immaculately measured prose; they confronted innocent, inadequate characters with situations of incipient menace that frequently break out into grotesque violence |
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