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"The Coming Day and Other Stories
Edward Upward
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Paperback. Contains six short stories and a novella. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 144 x 12. Weight in Grams: 208.
These stories (one novella-length, six shorter) testify to Edward Upward's continuing creativity into his mid-nineties. They interweave elements from every period of his work: railway accidents and Kafkaesque dreams recall his earliest; concern for the survival of humanity maintains the left-wing commitment of his middle years; and the more contemplative note of his later writing now deepens with the themes of ageing, bereavement and death. The protagonists are threatened by a malevolent state and socio-political violence, but sustained by visions of a better future and the restorative of sexual love. The precise observation and lucid dialogue that always marked Upward's ... Read more
These stories (one novella-length, six shorter) testify to Edward Upward's continuing creativity into his mid-nineties. They interweave elements from every period of his work: railway accidents and Kafkaesque dreams recall his earliest; concern for the survival of humanity maintains the left-wing commitment of his middle years; and the more contemplative note of his later writing now deepens with the themes of ageing, bereavement and death. The protagonists are threatened by a malevolent state and socio-political violence, but sustained by visions of a better future and the restorative of sexual love. The precise observation and lucid dialogue that always marked Upward's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
152
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
152
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781900564618
SKU
V9781900564618
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Ref
99-39
About Edward Upward
Edward Upward was born in 1903. While at Cambridge he created with Christopher Isherwood a series of stories about the fictitious village of Mortmere. After graduating from Cambridge he was a private tutor and for thirty years a schoolmaster, until his retirement in 1961. His first novel, Journey to the Border, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the ... Read more
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