THE HOUR AFTER WESTERLY

by Robert Coates ‧ RELEASE DATE: N/A

A collection of short stories, sketches and transient places offer versatile entertainment at a lighter level than his novels-Wester Cottage, The Farther Shore. Underplayed and unaccented, these are the small moments of self-betrayal, doubt, foreboding, regret, confusion; fantasy intrudes here and there, and there are a few autobiographical ""reminiscent resurgences"". In the leasing title story, an ordinary man contends with an extraordinary experience; in the much anthologized In A Foreign City a postgraduate prank reaches criminal proportions when it is revived many years later; in Rendezvous a defaulting bank cashier is secure for only as long as he escapes conformity; in Accident at the Inn, the power of suggestion transfers the intent to kill so that a man becomes the victim of the wife he had wanted to destroy; etc., etc. These and others, many of them less definite, and some of them certainly insubstantial, are perhaps of too occasional a nature to attract the general reader who is not generally a short story reader.

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Publisher: Harcourt, Brace

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: June 15, 1956

Categories: FICTION