Showing the Flag (Abacus Books) - Softcover

Jane Gardam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0349101167 ISBN 13: 9780349101163

Publisher: Little Brown, 1992

Synopsis

The flag that is shown, literally and metaphorically, by these characters is always the Union Jack. Gardam's stories are acutely observed social commentaries on Englishness, its weaknesses and its illusions.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Gardam is a Whitbread Award Winner and her novel GOD ON THE ROCKS was runner-up for the Booker Prize. She is winner of the David Higham Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize.THE PANGS OF LOVE won the Katherine Mansfield Award.

Review:

'Bitingly and immediately enjoyable and exquisitely written.' GUARDIAN 'Gardam's stories are both acutely observed social commentaries and voyages into the absurd.' TLS 'It is perfect; one cannot imagine how any master of short stories- Chekhov, Katherine Mansfield, V.S Pritchett- could have better realised its theme... All these stories show the same accomplishment and readability.' SPECTATOR

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0349101167
• ISBN 13: 9780349101163
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160