'You start alone, you finish alone,' she says: 'It's fine to be alone, it's a revelation, truth at last.'
This is the story of Almayer Jenkin's progress through life, from a motherless childhood through adult love affairs and her own experience of motherhood. In this novel, vivid and spare, touching and comic, A. L. Barker draws a fine portrait of Almayer and the diverse people she meets and lives among.
'I know nothing of A. L. Barker, except that she writes like an angel and I love her.' Auberon Waugh
'A novel that deserves to be cherished, as A. L. Barker so plainly cherishes her characters. She has a rare ability to illuminate the remarkable qualities of commonplace things, and a profound sympathy for us all, liable as we all are to being knocked over by very little at any time.' New York Magazine
- ISBN10 0807609110
- ISBN13 9780807609118
- Publish Date 1 January 1979
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 April 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint George Braziller
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 234
- Language English