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At a restaurant party thrown by Marlene of the Top Girls Employment Agency are Isabella Bird, the 19th-century traveller, Lady Nijo, courtesan to a 13th-century Japanese Emperor, Brueghel's Dull Gret, Pope Joan and Patient Griselda, wife of Chaucer's Clerk.

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"Top Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind." The Sunday Times, John Peter

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A Paperback / softback by Caryl Churchill

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    Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
    Publication Date: 14/06/1984
    ISBN13: 9780413554802, 978-0413554802
    ISBN10: 0413554805
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    Fiction Poetry Non Fiction ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: plays and playwrights

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    At a restaurant party thrown by Marlene of the Top Girls Employment Agency are Isabella Bird, the 19th-century traveller, Lady Nijo, courtesan to a 13th-century Japanese Emperor, Brueghel's Dull Gret, Pope Joan and Patient Griselda, wife of Chaucer's Clerk.

    Trade Review
    "Top Girls has a combination of directness and complexity which keeps you both emotionally and intellectually alert. You can smell life, and at the same time feel locked in an argument with an agile and passionate mind." The Sunday Times, John Peter

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