A very pleasant evening with Stevie Smith
Subtitle: selected short prose
By: Stevie Smith.
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 89
Description: A great poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Smith also wrote delightful short prose. And here, in A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith, is the very best of it: eight stories and four essays mixing throw-away charm and deadly sophistication. Her stories delight and surprise; her essays defend favorite subjects, such as cats and the suburbs. "Life in the suburbs is richer at the lower levels.

At these levels people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know they are eccentric."