A few days in the country and other stories
By: Elizabeth Harrower
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9781925240566; 9781922253330
Subjects: Australian Short stories
Description: "One day, Alice said, 'Eric Lane wants to take me to - ' For the first time, her mother attended, standing still. Eric was brought to the house, and Eric and Alice were married before there was time to say 'knife'. How did it happen? She tried to trace it back. She was watching her mother performing for Eric, and then (she always paused here in her mind), somehow, she woke up married and in another house." Internationally acclaimed for her five brilliant novels, Elizabeth Harrower is also the author of a small body of short fiction. A Few Days in the Country brings together for the first time her stories published in Australian journals in the 1960s and 1970s, along with those from her archives - including 'Alice', published for the first time earlier this year in the New Yorker. Essential reading for Harrower fans, these finely turned pieces show a broader range than the novels, ranging from caustic satires to gentler explorations of friendship.
Table of contents: title: The fun of the fair --; title: Alice --; title: The city at night --; title: Summertime --; title: The North Sea --; title: The cornucopia --; title: The beautiful climate --; title: Lance Harper, his story --; title: The cost of things --; title: English lesson --; title: It is Margaret --; title: A few days in the country.