- Mass Market Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Canada; Open market ed edition (Jun 28 1984)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0140073043
- ISBN-13: 978-0140073041
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.4 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #190,171 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Canadian novelist Findley (The Wars, Famous Last Words) here offers an impressive if uneven collection of 12 short stories. The best of the lot are written in strong, straightforward prose. Perhaps the most affecting is "Lemonade," which opens the volume and describes how a sensitive eight-year-old boy deals with his alcoholic mother's gradual physical and mental disintegration. Also effective is "War," a WW II story of a boy's reaction to the news that his father is joining the army; so is "SometimeLaterNot Now," in which the narrator tells of the sad life of a woman whom he has loved since childhood. The book's weaker entries are Findley's more experimental stories, including the apocalyptic "What Mrs. Felton Knew" and several "prose scenes" from plays. November
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Thanks to this volume, some of the best of Findley's stories are now spread glitteringly before us. His accomplishments in this exciting art are as proportionately large as his novels, as solid as they are brilliant."— -- The Toronto Star
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