Dear George and Other Stories - Softcover

Simpson, Helen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749395451 ISBN 13: 9780749395452

Publisher: Vintage, 1996

In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her characteristic blend of comedy and lyricism. Here are tales of young love - successful or thwarted, intense or comic.

From a wedding day for one, through the knotty problems of babies, their conception, arrival and impact on adult lives, to a Lothario receiving his just deserts, and the title story, where a schoolgirl's erotic daydreams during her Shakespeare homework go on to produce blushes of horror.

Product Description:

This second collection of short stories by the author of the prize-winning Four Bare Legs in a Bed, recently nominated as one of Granta magazine's Best Young British Novelists, continues to explore ideas of independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies.

Review:

"Of all contemporary writers, Simpson has the most honest, the most authentic voice" (The Times)

"Her stories can be read quickly, knocked back in a single, grateful gulp like an aperitif, or savoured with a slow, cool intoxication... She is Katherine Mansfield's natural successor" (Observer)

"Biting wit...has me laughing aloud" (Pat Barker)

"Simpson's wit defies formulaic feminism or, indeed, any other -ism... Very, very funny" (Evening Standard)

"Full of good jokes, wonderfully alert to irony and the possibilities of language" (Jonathan Coe)

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0749395451
• ISBN 13: 9780749395452
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160