Ending Up
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
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Mainland Spain
- Publisher PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780141194233
- ISBN10 0141194235
- Type Book
- Pages 111
- Collection Modern Classics #
- Published 2011
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureEnding Up
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Do you want to pick it up at the bookstore?
Mainland Spain
Book Details
At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ...Told with Amis' piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.