A Little Tea, a Little Chat: Text Classics

Christina Stead

A Little Tea, a Little Chat: Text Classics
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Text Publishing Co
Country
Australia
Published
3 October 2016
Pages
320
ISBN
9781925355727

A Little Tea, a Little Chat: Text Classics

Christina Stead

Introduction by David Malouf

Ever since his early manhood, since his marriage, he had bought women; most had been bargains and most had made delivery at once. He never paid in advance: ‘I got no time for futures in women’.

New York, on the cusp of World War II. Robert Grant, a middle-aged businessman, lives life by his own rules. His chief hobbies are moneymaking and seduction; he is always on the hunt for the next woman to beguile and betray. That is, until he meets his match: Barbara, the ‘blondine’, a woman he cannot best.

A sardonic commentary on sexual relations and war as potent as when it was first published in 1948, A Little Tea, a Little Chat holds up a mirror to the corruption and cravenness of our late-capitalist moment.

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