Complete Collected Stories (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: V. S. Pritchett
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Short stories
- Genres: Short fiction, Character study
- Subjects: Sex or sexuality, Twentieth century, Middle classes, Autobiography, World War II, Religion, England or English people, Human behavior, Eccentrics or eccentricities, Comedy
Is it possible that, at age ninety, V. S. Pritchett will finally get his due as one of England’s greatest short-story writers? Certainly reviewers have done their part: commentators as various and distinguished as Margaret Drabble, Frank Kermode, Irving Howe, and Paul Theroux have exhausted their collective store of superlatives in praising his stories. Both The New York Times Book Review and The New York Review of Books devoted long, thoughtful encomiums to his latest volume. Even Pritchett’s publishers have ignored the conventional wisdom about volumes of short...
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