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 caf? 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.Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 01/24/2023
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.5lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780571375462
Language: English
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