Cakes and Ale

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.

Author: W. Somerset Maugham
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/05/2000
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 7.94h x 5.19w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9780375725029
ISBN10: 0375725024
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Satire
- Fiction | Historical | General

About the Author
W. Somerset Maugham lived in France and England. He died in 1965.