- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Chatto & Windus (Dec 19 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1860560326
- ISBN-13: 978-1860560323
- Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 2.5 x 20.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 322 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #523,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“This collection is a jewel-box containing gems of near perfection … She's a consistently superior writer. Do yourself – and literature – a service: Read her.”
— Globe & Mail
“. . . moving and tragic. The Darkness of Rose Tremain is never far from the surface in this brilliantly written short story collection.”
— Express
“Written with the deft imagination we’ve come to know and love from Rose Tremain.”
— Good Housekeeping
“Mordantly perceptive tales.”
— Sunday Times
“Her exactness and lightness of touch in scene-setting are used to superb effect in her short stories.”
— Independent on Sunday
From the Trade Paperback edition.
— Globe & Mail
“. . . moving and tragic. The Darkness of Rose Tremain is never far from the surface in this brilliantly written short story collection.”
— Express
“Written with the deft imagination we’ve come to know and love from Rose Tremain.”
— Good Housekeeping
“Mordantly perceptive tales.”
— Sunday Times
“Her exactness and lightness of touch in scene-setting are used to superb effect in her short stories.”
— Independent on Sunday
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Product Description
A wonderful new collection of short stories, most of which are published here for the first time.
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone — friend, foe or journalist — to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, had forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.
This superb story plays with the selectiveness of memory: why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety? She can remember her first two husbands — one a bit of a brute, the other very boring — but not the world-famous third one.
The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected: an East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life. He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his “frame” — or does he? And there’s a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel.
Wallis Simpson, the twice-divorced American woman for whom Edward VIII abdicated in 1936, ended her life (as the Duchess of Windsor) as the prisoner of her lawyer who would not allow anyone — friend, foe or journalist — to visit her in her Paris flat. Rose Tremain takes this true story and transforms it into an imaginative and ironic fiction. Her thesis is that Wallis, gaga and bed-ridden, had forgotten the king who gave up an empire for love of her.
This superb story plays with the selectiveness of memory: why does Wallis recall the seemingly unimportant, while forgetting the glory days of her notoriety? She can remember her first two husbands — one a bit of a brute, the other very boring — but not the world-famous third one.
The other stories in this magnificent collection range over a variety of themes, equally original and unexpected: an East German border guard, redundant after the Berlin Wall comes down in 1989, imagines that he might still have a purpose in life. He tries to reach Russia by bicycling across the hostile wastes of Poland. A jilted man gets his revenge. A baby grows wings. A character in an Impressionist painting escapes from his “frame” — or does he? And there’s a Christmas story set in a seedy hotel.
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