The Day Stalin Died (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Doris Lessing
- First Published: 1957
- Type of Plot: Coming of age
- Time of Work: March 5, 1953
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: The narrator, Jessie, Emma, Jean, Beatrice, The host, Jackie Smith
- Genres: Psychological fiction, Short fiction
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Politics, Authors or writers, Depression, mental, Work or workers, Free speech
- Locales: London, England
The Story
The day begins badly. The narrator receives a letter from Aunt Emma in Bournemouth, reminding her of a promise to take her cousin Jessie to have her picture taken that afternoon. Aunt Emma, Jessie's mother, wants the photos because she intends to show them to a television producer who visits his older brother in the boardinghouse where she and her daughter live. Aunt Emma hopes that Jessie will prove sufficiently photogenic to induce the producer to whisk her off to London to be a television star. Jessie is a broad-shouldered girl of about twenty-five who looks...
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