The Lydia Steptoe Stories : Faber Stories Paperback / softback
by Djuna Barnes
Part of the Faber Stories series
Paperback / softback
Description
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 'I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.'In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening - accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo. A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become 'a virago', until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover.
A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father's mistress.
A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.'Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time. Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:48 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:03/01/2019
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- ISBN:9780571352470
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:48 pages
- Publisher:Faber & Faber
- Publication Date:03/01/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780571352470
