Mostly About Men: A collection of short stories - Softcover

Manktelow, Bettine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1497355508 ISBN 13: 9781497355507

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014

Synopsis

Mostly About Men is mostly about men in relationship to women; the betrayed husband, the selfish lover, the runaway son. There is the man who loves pleasure above love and finds nothing else. There is the sad man, too late to repair his life and there is the futuristic man whose body is worth more dead than alive. These stories are, after all, mostly abut men but what emerges from them is that no man can really manage his life without a good woman!

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Review:

Bettine Manktelow has a gift which all writers envy the ability to get the reader involved from the first line of a story. E.M.Forster once wrote that the core of fiction was to excite in the reader the question: what happens next and in this fine collection each story keeps our attention in that quest. The stories draw on a remarkable variety of backgrounds and draw us into their world, whether that be the ambience of an old theatrical digs or a field of horses as experienced by a young city boy. Pathos, humanity, loneliness, sometimes, and loss as well as the milk of human kindness and the moral sense which is somewhere in everyone are all evoked in these narratives. They strike a note of psychological truth . . . at the end, the reader is left wanting more. Mostly About Men is readable, enjoyable and wise. --Mary Kenny

About the Author:

Bettine Manktelow has been writing for over twenty years. Her plays have been published and are shown all over the world where English is the first language. These plays are thrillers, comedies or straightforward dramas but they all explore relationships between men and women and the problems that arise when they practise deception. She also researched in depth the First and Second World Wars, from which two novels emerged, the plots being too complicated and far ranging for plays. These novels are "No Time for Tears", about the First World War and "The Gossamer Thread" set in the Second World War. " Mostly about Men is her first collection of short stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1497355508
• ISBN 13: 9781497355507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130