The Wrong Set and Other Stories

Informationen zum Autor One of Britain's most distinguished novelists Sir Angus Wilson was born in 1913. Educated at Westminster and Merton College, Oxford he joined the British Museum as a cataloguer before being called for service in 1941. His literary career began with a collection of short-stories published in 1949. These were followed by other short-story collections, novels and plays. Co-founder with Malcolm Bradbury of the MA programme in creative writing at the University of East Anglia, Wilson was appointed professor in 1967. Chair of many literary panels, including the Booker prize, and campaigner for homosexual equality he was knighted in 1980. He died in 1991. Klappentext A collection of short stories that offers an exposure of the protective devices with which people seek to mask deep-laid egotism. Zusammenfassung And the staff dance at the South Kensington hotel, where lives the lady who spends her life trying to achieve 'a Knightsbridge appearance on a Kensington purse', and where, as the evening progresses and the drinks begin to tell, the lady-like façades and gentlemanly courtesy of the clientele crack up with a vengeance.

Product details

• Authors: Angus Wilson, WILSON ANGUS
• Assisted by: Angu Wilson (Editor), Angus Wilson (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.01.2009
• EAN: 9780571248513
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24851-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Short Stories, Faber Finds; Narcissism; Society