A careless widow and other stories
Pritchett's ninetieth birthday will coincide with the publication of this amazing collection of new stories and will be a major literary celebration. First published in 1989, here is England's leading man of letters -- as old as the century -- at the height of his powers, the incomparable V. S. Pritchett, whose brilliantly observed short stories have become classics in his own lifetime. In these six beautifully crafted stories -- his latest effort -- we see a master at work, casting his eye over the subjects he knows best, the ordinary men and women of England: studious fourteen- year-old Sarah, whose life is changed by a game of hide-and-seek; or Lionel Frazier, the hairdresser, who looks at a woman and sees only her head; or George Andrews, the salesman, for whom new floral carpeting is always an exciting omen. The genius of these stories is their familiarity -- almost everyone will recognize a moment or a revelation of his own life in the experiences of Pritchett's utterly individual and incomparably real characters
Print Book, English, ©1989
1st American ed
Random House, New York, ©1989