Tell it to a Stranger: Stories from the 1940s - Softcover

Berridge, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903155045 ISBN 13: 9781903155042

Verlag: Persephone Books Ltd, 2000

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'One of my favourite Persephone books,' said Charlie Lee-Potter on Radio 4's Open Book, 'is a collection of short stories by Elizabeth Berridge first published in 1947 when she was 28.They are a revelation to me, I was transfixed by the quality of the writing. It seemed to me that they are quite radical stories, they were quite sharp and hard and disruptive as ideas.' In his Preface A N Wilson writes: 'She is a novelist of distinction who is also - and this is a rarity - equally at home in the quite different medium of the short story, with its need for an iron discipline and control. Many of the masters of this genre, carried away by their cleverness, either convey or actually possess the quality of heartlessness. Others - and one thinks primarily of Chekhov - are able to retain the discipline of the medium but suffuse its tight confines with warmth. This is the quality of Elizabeth Berridge's stories which sends us back to them, which makes us read and re-read until they have become friends.' In "The Tablet" Isabel Quigly wrote about Elizabeth Berridge's 'remarkable capacity for taking one inside the world of her short stories and showing what happens to the people, where they belong, what they feel.' She too invoked Chekhov: 'It is there that she should be seen, at the highest level of short-story writing, without stereotypes, without foregone conclusions, with deep humanity and a recognisable voice.'

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Elizabeth Berridge has published nine novels, Across the Common winning the Yorkshire Post Award for Best Novel of the Year in 1964. Her last novel, Touch and Go, has recently been adapted as a play by BBC Radio 4.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Persephone Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1903155045
• ISBN 13: 9781903155042
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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