Faber Stories,a landmark series of individual volumes,presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman,now a widow,who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust,but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality.Written in 1969,before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers,this story renders male and female characters painful equals,and prompted Philip Roth to admire its'detached Chekhovian tenderness'.Bringing together past,present and future in our ninetieth year,Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571356904Number of pages: 48Weight: 40 gDimensions: 160 x 134 x 4 mmEdition: Main
Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera was a Czech-born French writer,best known for the novels The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.
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