Dr Clock's Last Case and Other Stories
Language: English
Published by Virago Press Ltd, London, 1994
- First Edition
- Signed
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Silver Trees Books, Malvern, WORCS, United KingdomSilver Trees Books
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Condition: Used - Near fine
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Near fine book in light card covers. Internally fine; SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the title page and also SIGNED AND DEDICATED by her on the flyleaf.
Seller Inventory # 028958
- Title
- Dr Clock's Last Case and Other Stories
- Author
- Ruth Fainlight
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd, London
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1853816825
- ISBN 13
- 9781853816826
- Edition
- First Edition
A. S. Byatt's comment that Ruth Fainlight's poems 'combine Alice Munro's virtues with something more archaic and also, in exact clear words, give us a truly new vision of usual and mysterious events' can be applied with equal force to this collection of stories. Acutely precise and elegant, they move from vivid evocations of an American childhood and close studies of amoral expatriate life to erotic humour and black fantasy. The breakdown of a middle-aged man when the ghost of his mother, who perished in the Holocaust, returns to haunt him; the unexplained midnight arrival of three likely terrorists at the comfortable English village house of a university professor; a woman's half-reluctant marriage to her daughter's all these stories demonstrate Ruth Fainlight's uncompromising subtlety of style, and the range of her sympathies and imagination.
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Silver Trees Books
Malvern, WORCS, United Kingdom
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