- Editorial:
- PUSHKIN PRESS UK
- Año de edición:
- 2024
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78227-849-8
- Páginas:
- 272
A DIFFERENT SOUND
STORIES BY MID-CENTURY WOMEN WRITERS
ELIZABETH BOWEN / DAPHNE DU MAURIER / ELIZABETH TAYLOR
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Irelandmany being published in America for the first time
These remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, domestic arrangements are rewritten, social customs are revoked and new freedoms are embraced.
Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, Senior Editor at McNally Editions, this collection places works from renowned women writers alongside recently rediscovered voices.
Contains:
The Cut Finger by Frances Bellerby Summer Night by Elizabeth Bowen The Birds by Daphne du Maurier The Land Girl by Diana GardnerListen to the Magnolias by Stella GibbonsShocking Weather, Isnt It? by Inez HoldenThe First Party by Attia HosainThree Miles Up by Elizabeth Jane Howard The Skylight by Penelope MortimerThe Thames Spread Out by Elizabeth TaylorScorched Earth Policy by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Suffused with tension and longing, the captivating stories collected here from acclaimed as well as lesser-known women writers form a window onto a remarkable era of writing.
