Representing more than twenty years
of work, this collection brings together
Penelope Gilliatt s finest short stories
in one volume. The majority are from
her now hard-to-find collections Come
Back If lt Doesn t Get Better, Nobody s
Business, and Splendid Lives. Selec-
tions from the most recent, and ac-
claimed, Quotations From Other Lives
and They Sleep Without Dreaming
complete the collection.
Penelope Gilliatt brings to ] ife a rich
variety of characters and scenes. We
meet a female literary agent who smokes
cigars and whose face "looked like a
Buick"; two great actresses in ruthless,
polite combat; and a grandmother who
daily shuttles her grandson back and
forth between New York and Rome.
All the stories display Gilliatt s
unmistakable hallmarks--the subtle
irony, scrupulous eye for detail, and
impeccable ear for speech that have
made her one of the masters ot the
contemporary short story. She is a
buoyantly witty writer who is deeply
serious, a profound writer who is irre-
sistibly funny, and always a brilliant
stylist.
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