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Pack of Cards: Stories 1978-1986 (1986)

door Penelope Lively

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An "abundantly rich collection" of short stories by the Man Booker Prizeâ??winning author (The New York Times Book Review).

In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively shares moments in the everyday world that are not always open to observation, as she delves into the minutiae of her characters' lives.

Whether she writes about a widow on a visit to Russia, a small boy's consignment to boarding school, or an agoraphobic housewife, Lively takes the reader behind a closed curtain, through the locked door, and into a world that seems at first mundaneâ??then proves to be uniquely memorable.

"Witty, profoundly civilized . . . This captivatingly intelligent collection confirms Lively's place as one of Britain's most imaginative and important contemporary writers." â??Library Journal
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Some stories stand out more than others, but, overall, I have a fondness for Lively's writing style. My favorites are: "A Clean Death," "Venice, Now and Then," "Grow Old Along With Me...," "The Darkness Out There," "A Long Night at Abu Simbel," "Clara's Day," and "The French Exchange." ( )
  tarantula7 | May 29, 2022 |
Nothing Missing but the Samovar - A beautifully rendered story told from the perspective of a German student visiting the estate of an arisrocratic English family who have fallen on hard times yet maintain a wonderfully staid optimism and love of their farm and way of life. Very English.

Servants Talk about People: Gentlefolk discuss things - I'll remember this every time I dine in a restaurant. funniest story I've read in years!


Long Night at Abu Simbel - Very funny tale of how rapidly our veneer of civility wears away in the face of a bit of difficulty far from home.

The Art of Biography - Loved the juxtaposition of a great historical love affair and the narrator's rather pedestrian one.
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Twenty-eight interviews, duly recorded and filed. Seventeen card index boxes. Seven hundred and nineteen letters in the British Library and the University of Texas and in God knows how many box files and drawers of desks. Notes and footnotes and references and cross-references; checks and cross-checks and headings and sub-headings. Names and places and times and dates. All sewn up and stashed away, or just about. A man’s life reduced to paper and print or rather, card and tempo pen. The material, the valuable laboriously gathered material for the definitive biography of Edward Lamprey, poet and man of letters, born eighteen-ninety-three, died nineteen-fifty-eight.
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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. HTML:

An "abundantly rich collection" of short stories by the Man Booker Prizeâ??winning author (The New York Times Book Review).

In Pack of Cards, Penelope Lively shares moments in the everyday world that are not always open to observation, as she delves into the minutiae of her characters' lives.

Whether she writes about a widow on a visit to Russia, a small boy's consignment to boarding school, or an agoraphobic housewife, Lively takes the reader behind a closed curtain, through the locked door, and into a world that seems at first mundaneâ??then proves to be uniquely memorable.

"Witty, profoundly civilized . . . This captivatingly intelligent collection confirms Lively's place as one of Britain's most imaginative and important contemporary writers." â??Library Journal

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