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Fifty Stories

Fifty Stories

Boyle, Kay

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ISBN10: 0811212068
ISBN13: 9780811212069
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: Jun 17 1992
Pages: 644
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.55 Width: 5.56 Depth: 8.46
Language: English
Kay Boyle's Fifty Stories is an eloquent testament to the possibility of living and writing with passion and honor. In Paris in the twenties, in Austria before and after the Anschluss, in New York, in occupied Germany, in California, Boyle has been an inspiration both as an exquisite stylist and as a chronicler of the nuances of human experience. Now in her ninetieth year, Kay Boyle dares us, in this most comprehensive collection of her stories, to explore the themes that have preoccupied her for a lifetime: the inviolate integrity of the human soul, the impact of external events on the most intimate of feelings, our fractured experience of love versus duty, self-respect versus hubris, social convention versus personal ethic...She is still unquestionably modern (Ann Hornaday, The New York Times Book Review). Acclaimed novelist Louise Erdrich has provided a very personal appreciation of Boyle's power and grace. As she comments in the Introduction: Kay is a citizen whose life and art are intertwined, one morally dependent on the other, both inexhaustible.

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