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Less Than Angels
by Barbara Pym
This book is an uproarious delight: a comedy of manners, a romantic farce, a send-up of academia and academics, and, almost by the way, a surprisingly subtle meditation on religion and spirituality. The complex personal and professional dynamics (and funding shortages) governing the relationships of the anthropologists are so instantly recognizable that I, as a graduate student in the humanities, howled with laughter, and cringed in sympathy. Pym manages to offer a magnificently vivid snapshot of a cross-section of London life in a specific historical and cultural context, that is also irreducibly human; recommended especially to fans of Muriel Spark.