Getting a Life: Stories. Helen Simpson
Getting a Life: Stories Helen Simpson ebook
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Page: 208
ISBN: 9780375724978
From the writer whose work has been described as "sparingly tragic and unsparingly funny" (Ruth Rendell) and "shimmering with grace and savagery and wit" (The Times, London), a new collection: nine stories about the blisses and irritations of domestic life.
The setting is contemporary London and its suburbs. A seventeen-year-old girl, a student of Coleridge and Keats, walks toward her future resolved not to be anything like her successful career-woman mother. At a small cafe in South Kensington, two women, teachers, become tipsy and exchange confidences about their family difficulties and marital turmoils, revealing more than they intend. A celebratory dinner for a timber merchant and his wife in South London turns into something else entirely. In the midst of a sensuous shopping spree, a woman shares with her friend the secret of a state of mind known as wurstigkeit ("sausageness"). At a Robert Burns gala in a Mayfair hotel, poetry and money collide head-on.
These are stories that charm and move us as they catch the special timbre -- part laughter, part wail -- of youngish, more or less sophisticated lives in the city at our particular moment in time.
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