Cheap in August (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Graham Greene
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Plot: Wit and humor
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: Kingston, Jamaica
- Principal Characters: Mary Watson, Henry Hickslaughter
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Emotions, Fear, Adultery, Loneliness, Old age or elderly people
- Locales: Kingston, Jamaica
The Story
Mary Watson, an Englishwoman married to an American university professor who is in Europe to complete a study of the eighteenth century poet James Thomson, decides to take an inexpensive month's holiday in Jamaica during the off-season. She has written her husband that an old friend from England has insisted that she accompany her on the holiday, but she has in fact gone off alone. The off-season rates explain the story's title on its simplest level.
In the first days of her holiday, yearning for a brief affair to give her life a fillip before she enters her...
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