Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick

Hardwick, Elizabeth
Pinckney, Darryl

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

General Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.95

ISBN10: 1590172876
ISBN13: 9781590172872
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jun 1 2010
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.56
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.98
Language: English
Elizabeth Hardwick was one of America's great postwar women of letters, celebrated as a novelist and as an essayist. Until now, however, her slim but remarkable achievement as a writer of short stories has remained largely hidden, with her work tucked away in the pages of the periodicals--such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Review of Books--in which it originally appeared. This first collection of Hardwick's short fiction reveals her brilliance as a stylist and as an observer of contemporary life. A young woman returns from New York to her childhood Kentucky home and discovers the world of difference within her. A girl's boyfriend is not quite good enough, his silvery eyes, light and cool, revealing nothing except pure possibility, like a coin in hand. A magazine editor's life falls strangely to pieces after she loses both her husband and her job. Individual lives and the life of New York, the setting or backdrop for most of these stories, are strikingly and memorably depicted in Hardwick's beautiful and razor-sharp prose.

Also from

Hardwick, Elizabeth

View All

Also in

General Fiction

View All