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Highlights
- This Christmas, bask in these 'diminutive masterpieces' (Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes.
- Author(s): Sylvia Townsend Warner
- 304 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Short Stories (single author)
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Book Synopsis
This Christmas, bask in these 'diminutive masterpieces' (Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes. "One of our finest writers." -- Neil Gaiman "One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years. " -- Sarah Waters "Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted." -- Guardian"Extraordinary, lucid wildness." -- Helen MacDonald
Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a café before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife.
In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements, from marriages and affairs to widowhood; and a champion of outsiders, whether single women, the elderly or wartime refugees.
Witty and subversive, her stories meld tradition and transgression, with secret sins and fetishes as much a feature of English life as eccentric aunts, country houses and parish churches.
Review Quotes
"Original, elegant and hypnotically strange." -- New York Times
"What a witty, poetic, clairvoyant writer ... Genius." -- John Updike "One of our finest writers." -- Neil Gaiman "One of our most idiosyncratic, courageous and versatile writers." -- Hermione Lee
"One of the most acute and intelligent writers of her age." -- Claire Harman
"Like charades played by angels." -- Sunday Times "Glinting perfection ... Beautiful, unplaceable weirdness." Times
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 304
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Short Stories (single author)
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Paperback
Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Language: English
Street Date: January 24, 2023
TCIN: 86991526
UPC: 9780571375462
Item Number (DPCI): 247-17-4026
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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