![]() Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image. But then Kear discovers the great novelist' s voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. Somerset Published byHeinemann, London, 1953 Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A. ![]() Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield' s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best. Cakes and Ale is a characteristic Somerset Maugham novel, a combination of social satire, autobiography, and roman à clef. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield's wife to pen the official biography of her lionized novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. ![]()
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