Cakes and Ale

W. Somerset Maugham, 威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆


Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars
3.78 · 18 ratings · 321 pages · Published: 1930

Cakes and Ale by W. Somerset Maugham, 威廉·薩默塞特·毛姆
Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. 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. But then Kear discovers the great novelist's voluptuous muse (and unlikely first wife), Rosie. 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. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

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