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Bezig met laden... The Wild Cherry Tree (1968)door H. E. Bates
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First published in 1968, The Wild Cherry Tree is a late collection of ten tales including comic vignettes, a humorous celebration of the sensual life, and several explorations of love, loneliness, and problematic relationships. 'The Wild Cherry Tree' sees the wife of a pig-farmer who dresses like a 'shabby, straddling scarecrow' as she tends her pigs by day, but, alone in the evenings, adorns herself in exotic clothes and jewels without leaving the house. That is until one day, when she has to deal with the consequences.'Same Time, Same Place' follows an impoverished spinster and a lonely bachelor who become friends, but when he drunkenly and clumsily proposes to her she avoids him, denying herself 'the possibility of friendship with a man who genuinely likes her.''The First Day of Christmas' observes a man with his lover on a festive evening out, surrounded by fellow drinkers and full of saucy dialogue, who is torn between asking her hand and burying his grief in drink. 'The Black Magnolia' celebrates the sensual life in a farce involving two voluptuous and liberated women and a repressed, tee-total bachelor. The bonus story 'A Waddler' is Bates's first published story, and is a village sketch with colourful dialogue. It follows a man as he deals with the death of his overly critical wife, as he is conversely complimented by a fellow widow on carrying his grief so well. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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By sally tarbox on 29 May 2013
Format: Paperback
Ten wonderful evocative short stories - I particularly liked 'Love Me Little, Love Me long' which in only seven pages totally creates the mood and passion of a man visiting his former love, now-married and out of his grasp forever.
Also the marvellous title story where we meet 45 year old Mrs Boorman, living a totally unglamorous life on a pig farm:
'Every morning, as she slopped out of the house into the mouldering filth of the pig-yard...she looked in fact less like a pig than a shabby, straddling scarecrow. Big, mud-caked gumboots concealed whatever shape her legs had. A long sackcloth apron shrouded her body into a flatness that might have been masculine...And as if she were actually afraid of revealing any part of herself that might have given away the fact that she was a woman she wore, winter and summer, a vast pair of old leather driving gloves, so dark with dirt and use that they might have been perennially soaked in pig dung.'
But Mrs Boorman has a secret - every spare penny goes on a fabulous collection of clothes...
Once I'd got past the rather lackluster first tale in this collection, I was hooked. ( )