The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick
$38.64
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2010
Summary
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America’s great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals in which it originally appeared.
This first collection of Hardwick’s short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life. A young woman returns from New York to h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781590172872 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1590172876 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Hardwick, Darryl Pinckney |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Imprint: | NYRB Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | Main |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2010 |
| Weight: | 225g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
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Lapidary and strange, these pieces are virtually free of narrative, depicting characters whose central failure is an inability to plot their own lives. Abstract nd impersonal, the prose fairly gleams in these pages. Guardian Weekly
About The Author
Elizabeth Hardwick
Elizabeth Hardwick (1916-2007) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and educated at the University ofKentucky and Columbia University. A recipient of a Gold Medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, she is the author of three novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays. She was a cofounder and advisory editor of The New York Review of Books and contributed more than one hundred reviews, articles, reflections, and letters to the magazine. NYRB Classics publishes Sleepless Nights, a novel, and Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of a novel, High Cotton, and, in the Alain Locke Lecture Series, Out There- Mavericks of Black Literature.
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