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The Wedding Party
Description
The Wedding Party, first published in 1965 (Michael Joseph), is a collection of short stories evoking both the dark and light, and the comedy and tragedy in human nature. Bates employs a deceptive delicateness of touch in his descriptions and character sketches, here mastering the true essentials of the art of the short story; he says much by saying little, what is left out more poignant than the words on the page.
With a host of larger than life characters, we meet the scheming and eccentric Aunt Leonora, who fibs her way through the comic tale 'The Picnic'. The collection also unites two loveable rogues Captain Poopdeck and Uncle Silas, and brings us the farcical tale 'Early One Morning' which provide a sharp contrast with the sombre and haunting tones of pieces like 'The Primrose Place' and 'The Winter Sound', and the lyrical but bitter episode of 'The Wedding Party' itself.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Lesley Pearce
The Winter Sound
The Wedding Party
Early One Morning
Squiff
The Primrose Place
Shandy Lil
The Sun of December
The Courtship
A Teetotal Tale
The Picnic
The Old Eternal
Captain Poop-Deck's Paradise
Coconut Radio
Bonus Story: The Sugar Train
A Note on the Author
Product details
| Published | Sep 15 2015 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 153 |
| ISBN | 9781448215270 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Reader |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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