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Winter in the Air
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Author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
Title: Winter in the Air
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 304
Release Date: 2023-01-24
Details: This Christmas, bask in these 'diminutive masterpieces' (Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes.
"One of our finest writers." - Neil Gaiman
"One of the most shamefully under-read great British authors of the past 100 years. " - Sarah Waters
"Diminutive masterpieces ... Hand yourself over to be enchanted." - Guardian
"Extraordinary, lucid wildness." - Helen MacDonald
Decades after her divorce, a lady returns to the village of her tumultuous marriage. A railway carriage hosts a charged schoolboy encounter. A murder raises fears of blackmail. A woman waits anxiously in a caf'e before eloping to Paris. Another steals a friend's kitchen knife.
In these bittersweet tales, the author of Lolly Willowes reveals her mastery of the short story, celebrated by the New Yorker for decades. Sylvia Townsend Warner is a tragicomic chronicler of the heart's entanglements, from marriages and affairs to widowhood; and a champion of outsiders, whether single women, the elderly or wartime refugees.
Witty and subversive, her stories meld tradition and transgression, with secret sins and fetishes as much a feature of English life as eccentric aunts, country houses and parish churches.
EAN: 9780571375462
Package Dimensions: Height: 7.7 Inches, Length: 5 Inches, Weight: 0.5070632026 Pounds, Width: 0.8 Inches
