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Valenda Newell
June 18, 2017 | Indianapolis, IN
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LONDON (AP) — The acclaimed British novelist Beryl Bainbridge, an acute and acerbic chronicler of human relationships, has died at the age of 75.
Ed Wilson, of her literary agency Johnson and Alcock, says Bainbridge died in a London hospital early Friday. She had been suffering from cancer.
Bainbridge was born in the port city of Liverpool in northwest England in 1934, and the city's grit informed her books, which blended humor, tragedy and the absurd.
She published more than a dozen novels, including "A Weekend With Claud," ''The Bottle Factory Outing" and "Injury Time."
Several drew on Bainbridge's own experiences. Her early career as an actress in provincial theater provided the setting for "An Awfully Big Adventure," published in 1989 and made into a 1995 movie starring Alan Rickman and Hugh Grant.
As time went by, she increasingly turned to historical settings. "Every Man for Himself" was set aboard the Titanic and "Master Georgie" during in the Crimean War, while "According to Queeney" looked at 18th-century lexicographer Samuel Johnson. "Young Adolf" imagined the aspiring artist Hitler in Liverpool before World War I, to comic and disturbing effect.
"Beryl had an absolutely original voice: she was a serious comedian, all of whose novels ended tragically," writer Michael Holroyd told The Guardian newspaper.
Bainbridge was a five-time finalist for the Booker Prize, and twice won the Whitbread literary prize.
She was made a dame, the female equivalent of a knight, by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.
Details of survivors and funeral plans were not immediately available.
Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press
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Please accept my sincere condolences and sincere prayers that go out to the surviving family and friends. May the God of comfort continue to bless you and yours especially after such an untimely loss of a very precious life please accept my deepest sympathies. (2 Cor. 1:2, 3).
January 09, 2015 | GA
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Please accept my sincere condolences and sincere prayers that go out to the surviving family and friends. May the God of comfort continue to bless you and yours especially after such an untimely loss of a very precious life please accept my deepest sympathies. (2 Cor. 1:2, 3).
January 03, 2015 | GA
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A gracious and respectable person whose work has done so much to bring so much joy to many of us in these troubled times hard to deal with (2 Tim 3:1). Perhaps more will continue to have positive experiences from a wonderful work that has had an impactful contribution to life and its anxieties.
March 10, 2014 | GA
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May the God of all comfort, bring comfort to the family and friends of Beryl Bainbridge. We look forward to the time when sickness and death is a thing of the past.
C Matthews
September 20, 2010 | Phila, PA
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To the Family of Beryl Bainbridge:
It is often hard to find the right words to say when one looses a family member or friend. I send you my sincere sympathy and can relate to the pain you may be feeling at this time as I too have recently lost two family members back to back. I would like to encourage you to turn to our heavenly father when you feel that the pain is too much to bear and know that he will give you comfort when you feel you can't go on and he will never leave you. I...
July 13, 2010
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Death is something that is always difficult to deal with. However, we can find comfort and hope by turning to God's word the bible which tells us that soon there will be a time in which we will no longer have to mourn the death of a loved one because death will be no more. May we all strive to be there when that time comes.
July 10, 2010 | Bolingbrook, IL
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Please accept our deepest condolences.May your family find a measure of comfort durning this time of the loss of your family member. (2COR.1:3,4) Atlanta,Ga.
July 08, 2010
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You have my sympathy for the loss of Mrs. Bainbridge. I hope your memories can fill the void. May you allow the Bible to comfort you during this time, Revelation 21:3,4.
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July 06, 2010 | MD
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