The Lydia Steptoe Stories
€5.00
Product Information
| ISBN | 9780571352470 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Djuna Barnes |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Format | Paperback |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Weight (kg) | 0.044 |
| Publishing Date | 03/01/2019 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €4.72 |
| Tax | €0.28 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €5.00 |
| Availability | 1 unit in external warehouse |
Product Description
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
‘I have quite changed my mind. I am going to run away and become a boy.’
In these three stories, written by Djuna Barnes under the pseudonym Lydia Steptoe, three characters find themselves on the brink of a sexual awakening – accompanied by guns, whips, and worldly innuendo.
A fourteen-year-old girl plans to become ‘a virago’, until her mother intercepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same age is lured into the forest by his father’s mistress. A woman of forty falls in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the youth she thought she wanted. ‘Alice’, she tells herself, ‘be a man.’
Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful – and makes the fictional Lydia Steptoe seem like a writer for our time.
Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.