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The Complete Fiction
Contributor(s): Wyndham, Francis (Author), Hollinghurst, Alan (Introduction by)
ISBN: 1590173120     ISBN-13: 9781590173121
Publisher: New York Review of Books
OUR PRICE:   $15.26  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: May 2009
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single Author)
- Fiction | War & Military
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2009009127
Series: New York Review Books Classics
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5" W x 7.9" (0.90 lbs) 360 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
In his more than eighty years, Francis Wyndham has published very little--one novella and two collections of stories--but his is one of the most individual and compelling bodies of work by a contemporary English writer. As Alan Hollinghurst has said, Wyndham's fiction stands in the tradition of social comedy that goes back through Henry James to Jane Austen, with this difference: Wyndham writes about the lives of privileged and even titled people, but he is drawn to outcasts and odd ducks, adolescents, lonely women, addicts, eccentrics, and idlers.

The earliest stories here, gathered under the title Out of the War, are brilliant vignettes of deprivation and desire written during World War II. The later Mrs Henderson and Other Stories, by contrast, offers scrupulously observed tragicomic pictures of the vagaries of upper-class English family life. Finally, in the Whitbread Prize-winning short novel The Other Garden, a shy teenage boy living in the country strikes up an unlikely friendship with Kay, the thirty-something daughter of neighbors, sister to a famous actor, and black sheep of her family. Kay, with her whims and crazes and boyfriends, is unable to hold her own against her family's disapproval, and the narrator watches with helpless fascination as her small but very real tragedy is played out against the background of the Second World War.


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