Mr Wrong

HOWARD, Elizabeth Jane (Signed & Inscribed)

ISBN 10: 0224011324 / ISBN 13: 9780224011327

Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 1975

About this Item

A collection of 9 short stories. 223 pages. Inscribed by the author in memory of her friend, the author Elizabeth Taylor (to whom the book is dedicated) and dated Christmas 1975. As Ms Taylor had died a month previously, one assumes that this book was a presentation copy to her widower. Dark brown boards in jacket. Condition: The jacket has been price-clipped and the spine edge slightly discoloured. Some wear to the edges. The book itself is clean, tight and (inscription apart) unmarked. Scans can be provided on request. Every book is sent in a rigid cardboard posting box. Size: 20 Cm x 13.5 Cm.

Seller Inventory # 23074F

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mr Wrong
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, London
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0224011324
• ISBN 13: 9780224011327
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fair
• Signed: Signed & Inscribed by the Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

Synopsis

A short story anthology of thrills, chills, and the impulses and longings that drive us, from the bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles.In this dazzling collection, author Elizabeth Jane Howard mines the rich terrain of the heart with her trademark wit and style, as well as a Hitchcockian dose of spine-tingling suspense.In "Pont du Gard," a man on holiday with his sixteen-year-old daughter and her best friend gets his comeuppance when he confesses his infidelities to his long-suffering wife, and in Howard's masterly hands, the seduction of the na�ve, betrothed Englishwoman of "Toutes Directions" by a worldly Frenchman is fresh, tender, and liberating.In another story, a twelve-year-old child star plots how to get the "Whip Hand" over her monstrous mother, while the effects of a family patriarch dying on Christmas day are shown through the shifting perspectives of his loved ones, including a loyal servant, in "The Devoted." And in the hair-raising, hallucinatory title story, a young woman moves to London to satisfy her mother's desire for her to meet her soul mate--only to encounter a menacing stranger who gives terrifying new meaning to the finding of Mr. Right.In these and other tales, Howard proves once again that she is a master of the subtle, revealing domestic detail. Featuring wronged spouses, stalkers, and men and women falling in and out of love, the nine stories in this haunting collection skew our perceptions and reality while brimming with emotion that is at once unique and universal.

About the Author

Elizabeth Jane Howard was the author of fifteen highly acclaimed novels. The Cazalet Chronicles - The Light Years, Marking Time, Confusion, Casting Off and All Change - have become established as modern classics and have been adapted for a major BBC television series and for BBC Radio 4. In 2002 Macmillan published Elizabeth Jane Howard's autobiography, Slipstream. In that same year she was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. She died, aged ninety, at home in Suffolk on 2 January 2014.