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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Wrong Set and other stories (originale 1949; edizione 1977)di Angus Wilson
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I like Wilson's novels a lot, but I really did not enjoy these stories much. I appreciate his ability to build characters with moments of oblique dialogue, but none of the stories really added up to anything. I did enjoy the one about the staff/guest dance at a mid-level hotel in the interwar period. (But given the reference to "Vile Bodies," it might just be a tolerable impersonation of Evelyn Waugh.) The collection reads like a young author trying out a bag of tricks without quite knowing what will work. Within the next few years, Wilson greatly matured as a writer with both Anglo-Saxon Attitudes and Hemlock and After. ( ) I think this was the first thing that Angus Wilson published, and I haven't read any of his other stuff, but these stories definitely seemed like something written by a young man with promise but without the narrative and stylistic polish of a better writer. Some of the stories were tiresome to get through and some were pretty good, but I don't remember any of them despite having read the book only a few months ago. The quirky author's biography on the back of the original Penguin paperback edition is better than the actual book, and is pretty much the only reason I'm keeping my copy. Maybe his later stuff is better. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Angus Wilson's first volume of short stories, The Wrong Set was first published in 1949 to immense critical acclaim. The collection is a brilliantly funny exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism. There is the wallowing in self-adulation on the part of the 'crazy Cockshott family', as they delight to dub themselves. There is the search for really nice standards on the part of Vi, singer at the 'Passion Fruit' nightclub - as hopelessly bemused a spirit as ever lived in sin at Earl's Court and attempted to lecture a young Communist nephew with untidy hair and spectacles. There is the humbug of the bullying new curator at the provincial Art Gallery. And the staff dance at the South Kensington hotel, where lives the lady who spends her life trying to achieve 'a Knightsbridge appearance on a Kensington purse', and where, as the evening progresses and the drinks begin to tell, the lady-like façades and gentlemanly courtesy of the clientele crack up with a vengeance. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.914Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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