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Ending up

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At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony.

Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs.

The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas.

But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage.

Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner ... Told with Amis's piercing wit and humanity, Ending Up (1974) is a wickedly funny black comedy of the indignities of old age.

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Penguin Classics
0141194235 / 9780141194233
Paperback / softback
823.914
02/06/2011
United Kingdom
English
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288 p.
20 cm