Dr Clock's Last Case

Fiction & Literature, Short Stories
Cover of the book Dr Clock's Last Case by Ruth Fainlight, Little, Brown Book Group
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Author: Ruth Fainlight ISBN: 9780349010427
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group Publication: July 6, 2017
Imprint: Virago Language: English
Author: Ruth Fainlight
ISBN: 9780349010427
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication: July 6, 2017
Imprint: Virago
Language: English

A collection of short stories from the author of "Twenty One Poems" and "Three Poems".

A. S. Byatt's comment that Ruth Fainlight's poems 'combine Alice Munro's virtues with something more archaic and also, in exact clear words, give us a truly new vision of usual and mysterious events' can be applied with equal force to this collection of stories. Acutely precise and elegant, they move from vivid evocations of an American childhood and close studies of amoral expatriate life to erotic humour and black fantasy. The breakdown of a middle-aged man when the ghost of his mother, who perished in the Holocaust, returns to haunt him; the unexplained midnight arrival of three likely terrorists at the comfortable English village house of a university professor; a woman's half-reluctant marriage to her daughter's fiance: all these stories demonstrate Ruth Fainlight's uncompromising subtlety of style, and the range of her sympathies and imagination.

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A collection of short stories from the author of "Twenty One Poems" and "Three Poems".

A. S. Byatt's comment that Ruth Fainlight's poems 'combine Alice Munro's virtues with something more archaic and also, in exact clear words, give us a truly new vision of usual and mysterious events' can be applied with equal force to this collection of stories. Acutely precise and elegant, they move from vivid evocations of an American childhood and close studies of amoral expatriate life to erotic humour and black fantasy. The breakdown of a middle-aged man when the ghost of his mother, who perished in the Holocaust, returns to haunt him; the unexplained midnight arrival of three likely terrorists at the comfortable English village house of a university professor; a woman's half-reluctant marriage to her daughter's fiance: all these stories demonstrate Ruth Fainlight's uncompromising subtlety of style, and the range of her sympathies and imagination.

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