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The Grown Ups

Victoria Glendinning

2.4/5 ( ratings)

A wickedly entertaining novel that creates a portrait of a selfish, irresistibly attractive literary lion and of the world of the intellectually elite in which he performs.

Nobody in this wickedly entertaining novel is really grown-up. They simply live and love aimlessly in London flats and rambling houses in the country. And they round out the famous life and pretensions of Leo Ulm -- celebrated scholar, author, and television personality -- who still magnetizes his friends, wives, and lovers with his fading brilliance. His current wife Martha, his ex-wife Charlotte , his daughter-in-law Alice and their friend Clara, and the French teacher he seduced at a Washington convention adore him, although occasionally they feel like killing him.

The god of his own universe, Leo is monstrously selfish and chauvinistic. But a sudden change in Leo's status leaves all the women in his life in shock -- until they begin to wonder why they ever put up with him at all....

ISBN: 0743232186

ISBN 13: 9780743232180

The Grown Ups

Victoria Glendinning

2.4/5 ( ratings)

A wickedly entertaining novel that creates a portrait of a selfish, irresistibly attractive literary lion and of the world of the intellectually elite in which he performs.

Nobody in this wickedly entertaining novel is really grown-up. They simply live and love aimlessly in London flats and rambling houses in the country. And they round out the famous life and pretensions of Leo Ulm -- celebrated scholar, author, and television personality -- who still magnetizes his friends, wives, and lovers with his fading brilliance. His current wife Martha, his ex-wife Charlotte , his daughter-in-law Alice and their friend Clara, and the French teacher he seduced at a Washington convention adore him, although occasionally they feel like killing him.

The god of his own universe, Leo is monstrously selfish and chauvinistic. But a sudden change in Leo's status leaves all the women in his life in shock -- until they begin to wonder why they ever put up with him at all....

ISBN: 0743232186

ISBN 13: 9780743232180

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