Ebook {Epub PDF} Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge

Peking Picnic (Paperback). Publisher: Berkley Publishing, Author: Ann www.doorway.ru Rating: % positive. Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Peking Picnic (Berkley Medallion) Bridge, Ann; Ann Bridge. Published by Berkley Medallion Books/ Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation, New York, Seller: gearbooks, The Bronx, NY, U.S.A. Contact seller Seller Rating: Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. US$

I chose Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge as one of my TBR Pile Challenge books this year because I'd bought a Capuchin Classics edition (pictured below) for next to nothing when Borders closed up a few years ago. Some of the members of my online book group had raved about Illyrian Spring, one of Bridge's later works, which I read and enjoyed very much. I was really looking forward to this one. Bridge, A: The Portuguese Escape. WIFE of a former British diplomat, world-traveler, and author of sixteen books -- of which the early "Peking Picnic" set a high mark for enchantment -- Ann Bridge. Ann Bridge set the scene, describing the city and countryside, the people and their colonial status.. And the wonderful relationships that evolve during the picnic. Whilst illicit love isn't condoned it is presented in a way that makes the reader understand and wish Laura and the professor well.

Peking Picnic by Ann Bridge and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at www.doorway.ru Ann Bridge, who in real life was the wife of a British diplomat who served in China, always has beautify lyric prose and this book is no exception. Despite the foreign setting, Peking Picnic is very much a novel of ideas and ideals, about love and sacrifice and the proper way of living. Laura is definitely one who appreciates the bitter with the sweet, and in the course of the novel, one begins to see that that is a wise path to follow. In , her first, and best known novel, Peking Picnic, was published under her pseudonym of Ann Bridge. It was a success and won the Atlantic Monthly prize of $10, She followed that novel up with several others that featured restless, upper-class heroines in exotic environments.