AN AFTERNOON: Stories by

by Elizabeth Parsons ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 23, 1946

This first collection of stories by an author familiar to New Yorker readers reveals a modulated manner which is often deceptive, a delicacy, considerable charm and finesse. In minor key, here is the rarely revealed underplay in human relationships, the momentary mood, rather than incident. There is the poor boy's demolition of a new bicycle; the girl waiting for a first love with the death of a kitten as antidote to all anticipation; an unwanted little girl; a mother who wants for her child the things she has missed; a riding accident which kills a favorite horse and destroys an only escape from an incompatible marriage; and so on. The fragmentary, the fugitive, in small compass and quiet terms hold implications of the terrible and tragic. For the discriminating reader.

Pub Date: Aug. 23, 1946

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Viking

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1946

Categories: FICTION