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Jack looked at him–he saw a sort of whipped misery in Pat’s eye that reminded him of his own father.
(A Man In The Way)
Pat was forty-nine with red-rimmed eyes and a soft purr of whiskey on his breath.
(Fun in an Artist’s Studio)
The Penguin collection of Pat Hobby stories contains 17 stories. They ...
Warning: This review discusses sexual abuse, incest and madness. If these are a troubling subjects for you, do not read this review.
Out there the hot light clipped close her shadow and she retreated — it was too bright to see. Fifty yards away the Mediterranean yielded up its pigments, moment by moment, to the brutal sunshine...
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote 5 novels and some 150 short stories, as well as numerous articles for magazines. In the 1960s, Penguin Books published all the novels, four collections of short stories and this volume, which combines five autobiographical pieces and five short stories. I’ve summarised the five essays in a separate blog post. In this blog post, I look at the five sho...
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote 5 novels and some 150 short stories, as well as numerous articles for magazines. In the 1960s Penguin Books published all the novels, four collections of short stories and this volume, which combines five key autobiographical pieces and five short stories. This blog post summarises the five autobiographical pieces, numbers 1 to 5 in the list below. I...
‘This is our way of doing things,’ he thought. ‘Generous and fresh and free; a sort of Virginia-plantation hospitality, but at a different pace now, nervous as a ticker tape.’
(Michael Curly watching the extravagant wedding in ‘The Bridal Party’, page 93)
A Penguin selection of seven of the 150 or so short stories which F. Scott Fitzgera...