A collection of short stories in which the author blends the magical with the mundane, the world of the imagination with the reality of everyday life, the beautiful with the grotesque, the humorous with the tragic. The stories include "The Serpent She Loved" and "The Interior of Henry".
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She is a very good writer..
Collecting 23 stories written from 1958 to 1991, this volume by a prolific British novelist (L)r. Gruber's Daughter) is a true mixed bag. More about ideas than characters, these are highly cerebral tales that share a measured brevity, a leaning toward symbolic fantasy, and a sometimes overwhelming opacity. Whether set in the suburbs or in a timeless milieu (indeed, one is simply titled Fairy Tale), their pithy, fablelike structures are often self-enclosed and unyielding, a strain on the reader's involvement. In Divine, an odd family of three leads a rich, insular life in a Spanish village until a curious visitor appears; the story's framework is a meditation on the idealized life versus the pragmatic one. The title story concerns a middle-class man who decides to dig a hole next to his London home. Its existence becomes a cause c6lc%bre to the town-and leads to a moral we have not been primed enough to care about. Elliott is a thoughtful and imaginative writer, but these stories are distancing and rarely elicit empathy.
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