Chimes at Midnight and Other Stories - Rilegato

White, Terence De Vere

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0575022906 ISBN 13: 9780575022904

Casa editrice: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1977

Riassunto

The range of talent displayed in Terence de Vere White s first collection of short stories. Big Fleas and Little Fleas, was a revelation even to his warmest admirers. His readers will be delighted, and not surprised, that his second collection is an even more notable one. What a gallery of memorable characters he creates: the fat plain woman whose love affair develops so start- lingly; the morbidly jealous husband who finds grounds for suspicion in his wife s every action; the bestselling author whose vulgarity reveals more than he had intended. There are engaging studies of the feckless optimist who s happiest when he is sacked, of the well- intentioned meddler whose interventions are always calamitous, of the compulsive gambler who can always think up another reason for continuing to gamble. And there are episodes with much broader application: the amusing and all-too-true account of how a committee can talk itself into a decision which is the very opposite of the one it wants; the college dinner which reveals the violence concealed in men who regard themselves as civilised. ' Mr de Vere White writes with his expected wit, sympathy, sophistication and ironic sadness, qualities which add up to the most delightful entertainment.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0575022906
• ISBN 13: 9780575022904
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 192