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 fiction still make a powerful impression.
| ISBN: | 9781900564618 |
| Publication date: | 1st March 2000 |
| Author: | Edward Upward |
| Publisher: | Enitharmon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 151 pages |
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Anthologies: general |