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* Read ! Going Into a Dark House by Jane Gardam ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Going Into a Dark House Quietly mesmeric and quite beautifully written, these ten stories are a delight.. The look of cunning, the self-satisfied smile, the aura of hauteur as she watches the little Italian photographer go about his business. One need only to look at the old sepia photograph to see a vision of nastiness. They say the camera never lies, but maybe this one did'Going into the Dark House', the title story of Jane Gardam's passionate new collection, brilliantly captures the subtly subversive qualities of he
| Title | : | Going Into a Dark House |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (701 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0349106614 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 183 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-05 |
| Language | : | English |
SPECTATOR . Flawlessly written, with dialogue so angular and sparky, and description - of landscapes and food - so lovely and hard edged, that they are a revelation of the extraordinary effects ordinary language can achieve. In this collection of short stories she is at her finest. Sharply observed, wonderfully told tales. DAILY TELEGRAPH The dialogue is flawless. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH Jane Gardam's stories are as good as ever. YORKSHIRE POST Pure delight One perfect story after another. Her grasp of characters and their evolution is enviable
"A Fine Collection of Stories" according to J C E Hitchcock. This collection of short stories is the second book by Jane Gardam which I have read, the first being the novel "A Long Way from Verona". The two books are very different. The novel, written at a much earlier stage in the writer's career, is concerned with youth and childhood, being narrated by a thirteen-year-old girl. The stories contained in "Going into a Dark House", by cont. Tales of Spiritual Starvation Tony It is a set of short stories, which could be subtitled Tales of Spiritual Starvation. A duchess sweeps cheeses and fruit into her handbag at a charity event; market gardeners wading through produce can barely set a table for their children or themselves; other children grow into desiccated high-flyers.While pettiness and prejudice can be life-altering, there is little sadism. Us
Quietly mesmeric and quite beautifully written, these ten stories are a delight.. The look of cunning, the self-satisfied smile, the aura of hauteur as she watches the little Italian photographer go about his business. One need only to look at the old sepia photograph to see a vision of nastiness. They say the camera never lies, but maybe this one did'Going into the Dark House', the title story of Jane Gardam's passionate new collection, brilliantly captures the subtly subversive qualities of her art. Molly Fielding's mother had been a terrible woman' A terrible woman indeed
Jane Gardam is a Whitbread Award Winner and her novel GOD ON THE ROCKS was runner-up for the Booker Prize. She is winner of the David Higham Award and the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize.THE PANGS OF LOVE won the Katherine Mansfield Award.
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