INTRODUCED BY RACHEL COOKE
'Virginia Woolf's roving consciousness lies behind the prose in Novel on Yellow Paper, but the tone owes more to Dorothy Parker . . . When first published in 1936, it overnight turned Smith into a celebrity . . . the subversiveness of this novel has never lost its appeal, its greatness lying in its exuberant celebration of the uncircumscribed spirit' - Frances Spalding, Independent
Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church, shattering conventions in their wake.
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- Authors:
- Smith, Stevie
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Paperback
- ISBN:
- 9780860681465
- Number of Pages:
- 208
- Publication Date:
- 28/04/1980
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Series:
- Virago Modern Classics
- Year Published:
- 1980
- Place of Publication:
- London
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
- Virago Press Ltd
- SKU:
- 9780860681465