| Representing more than twenty yearsof work, this collection brings togetherPenelope Gilliatt s finest short storiesin one volume. The majority are fromher now hard-to-find collections ComeBack If lt Doesn t Get Better, Nobody sBusiness, and Splendid Lives. Selec-tions from the most recent, and ac-claimed, Quotations From Other Livesand They Sleep Without Dreamingcomplete the collection. Penelope Gilliatt brings to ] ife a richvariety of characters and scenes. Wemeet a female literary agent who smokescigars and whose face "looked like aBuick"; two great actresses in ruthless,polite combat; and a grandmother whodaily shuttles her grandson back andforth between New York and Rome. All the stories display Gilliatt sunmistakable hallmarks--the subtleirony, scrupulous eye for detail, andimpeccable ear for speech that havemade her one of the masters ot thecontemporary short story. She is abuoyantly witty writer who is deeplyserious, a profound writer who is irre-sistibly funny, and always a brilliantstylist. |
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