Story: Loss - Great Short Stories for Women By Women

'I think few of the stories in Loss will leave readers cold...'
Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars.
All the stories in this volume are about loss: lost lives, lost loves, lost innocence, even a lost leopard. The many ways in which loss touches our lives are shown in these varied stories.
CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen, Dorothy Parker, Shirley Jackson, Flannery O'Connor, Elizabeth Taylor, Jean Rhys, Anna Kavan, Muriel Spark, Ellen Gilchrist, Penelope Fitzgerald, Lorrie Moore, Hilary Mantel, Susan Hill, Colette Paul, Yiyun Li, Helen Simpson, Edna O'Brien, Edith Pearlman, Emma Donoghue, Carrie Tiffany and Lucy Wood.

About the author

Victoria Hislop lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Kindern in Kent und schreibt unter anderem Reiseberichte für verschiedene Zeitungen und Frauenzeitschriften. Überdies unterstützt sie die Hilfsorganisation LEPRA.

Summary

LOSS is a collection of great short stories written by women and personally selected by Victoria Hislop. It composes part of the three-volume anthology, THE STORY.

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'A rich feast.' Nigella Lawson.

Report

'[This] has given me more pleasure this year than almost all the rest of my reading put together.' Mariella Frostrup

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Hislop
• Assisted by: Victori Hislop (Editor), Victoria Hislop (Editor), Hislop Victoria (Editor)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781781856659
• ISBN: 978-1-78185-665-9
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Anthologies; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary