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Name: Elizabeth Taylor - Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont [NYRB] (retail) (epub)
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Title: Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
Author: Elizabeth Taylor
Language: English
Year: 1971
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: New York Review Books
ISBN: 1844083217
Total pages: 206 str.

A blackly humorous story of loneliness, deception, and life in old age by one of the most accomplished novelists of the twentieth century.

On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the Claremont Hotel in South Kensington. "If it's not nice, I needn't stay," she promises herself, as she settles into this haven for the genteel and the decayed.

"Three elderly widows and one old man . . . who seemed to dislike female company and seldom got any other kind" serve for her fellow residents, and there is the staff, too, and they are one and all lonely.

What is Mrs. Palfrey to do with herself now that she has all the time in the world? Go for a walk. Go to a museum. Go to the end of the block. Well, she does have her grandson who works at the British Museum, and he is sure to visit any day.

Mrs. Palfrey prides herself on having always known "the right thing to do,"...