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Late Call

(1964)
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Set 'with telling accuracy' in a new town, tells of retired hotel manageress Sylvia Calvert's search for purpose and understanding. She is obliged to live under the same roof as her headmaster son and his family. Wilson uses parody to examine, sympathetically, the mores of popular culture.


Genre: General Fiction

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