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Cockfosters: Stories

Cockfosters: Stories

Simpson, Helen

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0525563628
ISBN13: 9780525563624
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Sep 4 2018
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year

In these nine virtuoso stories, Helen Simpson turns her wickedly wry wit to the stations of life, the vulnerabilities of age, and the lives of ordinary people in complicated times. The title story follows two old friends as they ride the London Underground to Cockfosters--the end of the line--to retrieve a pair of newly prescribed bifocals. Erewhon depicts a reversal of gender roles as a man lies awake in bed fretting about his body shape, his dissatisfaction with sex, his children, and his role in his marriage. And in Berlin, a fiftysomething couple embarks on a Ring Cycle package trip to Germany, recalling the ups and downs of their life together as they make their way through Wagner's epic. Funny, warmhearted, and deeply insightful, these tales brilliantly balance devastation and optimism as only Helen Simpson can.

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