The Stories of Ronald Blythe

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? METHUEN MODERN FICTION
4These stories belong mainly to the first years of my writing life They all incorporate what I saw and heard around me from childhood on, even the ghost stories My interest was not in ghosts but in the personality of those who saw them '
From Ronald Blythe's introduction
Hie short story has always had a very special appeal for Ronald Blythe, and here he brings together twenty of his own which he has written since his mid-twenties. Some have appeared in his second book, Immediate Possession (1961), some in magazines, andfome in various anthologies. Set against a rural world with its habits and
fantasies, passions and quirks, they generally deal with loss and discontinuity; the shadowy past versus the present; and the isolated individual who is odder than he thinks, but also firmly self-limiting.
'Blythe transmits dreams of the past and fantasies of the present
with a creamy, conscious grace. His stories are compelling, atmospheric, as rich in detail... Tovább

Fülszöveg

? METHUEN MODERN FICTION
4These stories belong mainly to the first years of my writing life They all incorporate what I saw and heard around me from childhood on, even the ghost stories My interest was not in ghosts but in the personality of those who saw them '
From Ronald Blythe's introduction
Hie short story has always had a very special appeal for Ronald Blythe, and here he brings together twenty of his own which he has written since his mid-twenties. Some have appeared in his second book, Immediate Possession (1961), some in magazines, andfome in various anthologies. Set against a rural world with its habits and
fantasies, passions and quirks, they generally deal with loss and discontinuity; the shadowy past versus the present; and the isolated individual who is odder than he thinks, but also firmly self-limiting.
'Blythe transmits dreams of the past and fantasies of the present
with a creamy, conscious grace. His stories are compelling, atmospheric, as rich in detail as the dark cluttered parlours of aunts. This is a seductive writing ' The Sunday Times
'His stories are undeniably full of charm. Their exuberant enjoyment of the same solid, thingy world that Blythe's documentary writings inhabit is infectious And at [certain] full, packed moments not uncommon in this continually arresting collection Blythe's * mere" telling of stories starts to look as subtle in its particular brand of quiet self-consciousness as many more clever self-reflexive fictions manage to be.'
Times Literary Supplement Vissza