Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor Peter Mendelsund de Chirico's sole novel provides

de Chirico's sole novel provides a uniquely literary analogue to his painterly scenarios

It tells the story of Cressida Hazeborough and her friend Vivien

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and Denmark / ISBN 9781452174471 / 168-page hardcover from Chronicle Books

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont - Elizabeth Taylor Peter Mendelsund de Chirico's sole novel providesMrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylor, introduction by Michael Hofmann ISBN 9781681375649 193 page paperback from New York Review of Books Classics [brand new but a little wear from shipping] I love this book. *** A blackly humorous story of loneliness, deception, and life in old age by one of the most accomplished novelists of the twentieth century. On a rainy Sunday afternoon in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey moves to the