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 cafe 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.
Publisher: Faber & FaberISBN: 9780571375462Number of pages: 272Weight: 230 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mmEdition: Main
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Glinting perfection'- The Times
'Diminutive masterpieces...Hand yourself over to be enchanted.'- The Guardian
'Worth ￡9.99 for the book jacket alone (trust Faber)...It's exquisite and shivery,just like the stories within...By turns creepy,melancholy,horrifying,tragic and beltingly romantic.'- The Sunday Times
'One of our finest writers.'- Neil Gaiman
'One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years.'- Sarah Waters
'Extraordinary,lucid wildness.'- Helen MacDonald
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sylvia Townsend Warner was a British novelist,poet,short story writer and musicologist.
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