A Very Pleasant Evening With Stevie Smith Selected Short Prose by Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith is a magnificent wild card in the deck of this century's great writers--beyond category and past calculation. As Annie Dillard has said, "She is a wonder. " A great poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Smith also wrote delightful short prose. And here, in A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith, is the very best of it: eight stories and four essays mixing throw-away charm and deadly sophistication. Her stories delight and surprise: her essays defend favorite subjects, such as cats and the suburbs. "Life in the suburbs is richer at the lower levels. At these levels people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know they are eccentric. " And Stevie herself, at liberty to be as eccentric as she pleased, is the antidote to every form of literary dullness.

Publisher:	New Directions Publishing
Year:	1995
Binding:	Paperback
ISBN:	9780811212953
Condition:	Good

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SKU: 1599756
Location: Short Stories