Fifty Stories: 0741 (Revived Modern Classic) - Softcover

Boyle, Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811212068 ISBN 13: 9780811212069

Publisher: New Directions, 1993

Synopsis

Boyle, 50 Stories. An eloquent testament to the possibilities of living and writing.

About this title

About the Author:

Kay Boyle (1902-1992) was a writer and political activist. She was twice awarded Guggenheim fellowships, won the O. Henry Award for best short story of the year in 1935 and again in 1941, held a number of honorary degrees, and occupied the Henry James chair of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1981, she was awarded a Senior Fellowship for Literature from the National Endowment for the Arts.

From the Back Cover:

Kay Boyle's Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York, in occupied Germany, in California, Boyle has been an inspiration both as an exquisite stylist and as a chronicler of the nuances of human experience.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0811212068
• ISBN 13: 9780811212069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 640