num_pages: 622
description: Published for the first time in the VMC, the complete collected short stories of one of America's greatest living writers.These extraordinary stories are sweet and melancholic divulging the minor tragedies of people with an original and black humour. The stories are full of weird and wonderful characters - deaf mutes, bigamists, spinsters, hairdressers and jazz players. She captures the casual absurdities and idiosyncrasies of her native south characters with a sympathetic and subtle humour. A truly wonderful collection.
language: English
title: The Collected Stories
titlecomplete: The Collected Stories
characters: Clytie
genres: Womens, 20th Century, Southern, Literature, Short Stories, Southern Gothic, Classics, Fiction, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 8056
awards: awardedAt: 410256000000
name: National Book Award
category: Fiction (Paperback), awardedAt: 347184000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Fiction (Hardcover)
publisher: Virago