The Casino - Softcover

Bonham, Margaret; Cary Bazalgette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190315538X ISBN 13: 9781903155387

Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

Casino

About this title

Review:

'A collection of witty and acerbic short stories...her writing is cool, wry and touching.' -- Image magazine

From the Publisher:

The Casino, like Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day three years before, was brought into the Persephone Books office, in this case by the author's daughter Cary Bazalgette. She then wrote the Preface to our edition, in which she explained that because she and her brother did not live with her 'these stories stood in for my mother during my childhood and teenage years. Few of the children in them have two parents and when they do trouble looms. Family life in a conventiuonal sense is non-existent: the heart of each story is usually the relationship between one parent and a child.;
'The stories in The Casino are witty and perceptive, and some of her metaphors and similes are extraordinary eg "the water in each hollow, fringed with brown weed was clear as gin" wrote a Persephone reader. Five of them were wonderfully read on BBC Radio 4 by Emma Fielding (whose intelligent, quirky, sensitive voice - can anyone forget her Thomasina in the original production of Tom Stoppard's Arcadia? - was perfectly suited to Margaret Bonham's hymour and originality).

About this edition

• Publisher: Persephone Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 190315538X
• ISBN 13: 9781903155387
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232