The wrong set,: And other stories Wilson, Angus

Wilson, Angus

ISBN 10: 043657800X / ISBN 13: 9780436578007

Published by Secker & Warburg, 1969

About this Item

Third US printing, 1950. No dust jacket otherwise very good condition. Previous ownership in ink on the ffep and blind stamped on the title page. Text is clean.

Seller Inventory # 022824-09

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The wrong set,: And other stories Wilson, Angus
• Publisher: Secker & Warburg
• Publication Date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 043657800X
• ISBN 13: 9780436578007
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Angus Wilson's first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim.The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism.There is the wallowing in self-adulation on the part of the 'crazy Cockshott family', as they delight to dub themselves. There is the search for really nice standards on the part of Vi, singer at the 'Passion Fruit' nightclub - as hopelessly bemused a spirit as ever lived in sin at Earl's Court and attempted to lecture a young Communist nephew with untidy hair and spectacles. There is the humbug of the bullying new curator at the provincial Art Gallery. And the staff dance at the South Kensington hotel, where lives the lady who spends her life trying to achieve 'a Knightsbridge appearance on a Kensington purse', and where, as the evening progresses and the drinks begin to tell, the lady-like façades and gentlemanly courtesy of the clientele crack up with a vengeance.