The Complete Fiction

The Complete Fiction
Author :
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Total Pages : 418
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781590173121
ISBN-13 : 1590173120
Rating : 4/5 (120 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Complete Fiction by : Francis Wyndham

Download or read book The Complete Fiction written by Francis Wyndham and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2009-05-05 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Complete Fiction Related Books

The Complete Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Francis Wyndham
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-05 - Publisher: New York Review of Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 an
The Chicken Sisters
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: KJ Dell'Antonia
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-12-01 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER—NOW A HALLMARK+ ORIGINAL SERIES! A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK “A charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds
The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction
Language: en
Pages: 677
Authors: Mike Ashley
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-07-31 - Publisher: Robinson

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stros
The Space Between Worlds
Language: en
Pages: 351
Authors: Micaiah Johnson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-08-04 - Publisher: Del Rey

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • An outsider who can travel between worlds discovers a secret that threatens the very fabric of the multiverse i
Agency
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: William Gibson
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-21 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagin