The Proper Procedure and Other Stories - Softcover

Theodore Dalrymple

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1943003106 ISBN 13: 9781943003105

Publisher: New English Review Press, 2017

Synopsis

Theodore Dalrymple, almost singlehandedly, revived the languishing Essay and in so doing became Britain’s answer to Montaigne. In this, his first foray into the Short Story form, he proves himself a rival of Anton Chekhov. His many devoted fans will be delighted.
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Some truth can be told only in the form of fiction. That is why I chose to write these stories.
 — Theodore Dalrymple
 

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Review:

Once encountered, Theodore Dalrymple has become for many of us a shared treasure—the cultured, often mordantly funny social commentator who was for many years a psychiatrist at a British prison. No one else writes so engagingly and so candidly about the world as it is, not as the politically correct would have it be.
— Charles Murray, author of The Bell Curve and Coming Apart
 

About the Author:

Theodore Dalrymple is a former prison doctor and psychiatrist. He has been arrested as a spy in Gabon, been sought by the South African police for violating apartheid, visited the site of a civilian massacre by the government of Liberia, concealed his status as a writer for fear of execution in Equatorial Guinea, infiltrated an English communist group in order to attend the World Youth Festival in North Korea, performed Shakespeare in Afghanistan, smuggled banned books to dissidents in Romania, been arrested and struck with truncheons for photographing an anti-government demonstration in Albania and crossed both Africa and South America using only public transportation. He is also the author of more than two dozen books, innumerable essays and now, short stories.

About this edition

• Publisher: New English Review Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1943003106
• ISBN 13: 9781943003105
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 162