{"product_id":"the-complete-fiction-paperback-by-francis-wyndham-introduction-by-alan-hollinghurst","title":"The Complete Fiction Paperback by Francis Wyndham; introduction by Alan Hollinghurst","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                            \n                                \n                                    \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                                    \u003cul\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eNYRB Classics\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2009-05-05)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e360\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781590173121\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e408.24\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                        \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e8.0 x 5.0 x 0.85\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                                    \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                                    \u003cbr\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003eIn his more than eighty years, Francis Wyndham has published very little—one novella and two collections of stories—but his is one of the most individual and compelling bodies of work by a contemporary English writer. As Alan Hollinghurst has said, Wyndham’s fiction stands in the tradition of social comedy that goes back through Henry James to Jane Austen, with this difference: Wyndham writes about the lives of privileged and even titled people, but he is drawn to outcasts and odd ducks, adolescents, lonely women, addicts, eccentrics, and idlers.\u003cbr\u003e       \u003cbr\u003eThe earliest stories here, gathered under the title Out of the War, are brilliant vignettes of deprivation and desire written during World War II. The later Mrs Henderson and Other Stories, by contrast, offers scrupulously observed tragicomic pictures of the vagaries of upper-class English family life. Finally, in the Whitbread Prize–winning short novel The Other Garden, a shy teenage boy living in the country strikes up an unlikely friendship with Kay, the thirty-something daughter of neighbors, sister to a famous actor, and black sheep of her family. Kay, with her whims and crazes and boyfriends, is unable to hold her own against her family’s disapproval, and the narrator watches with helpless fascination as her small but very real tragedy is played out against the background of the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                    \u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n                                    \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancis Wyndham\u003c\/b\u003e was born in London in 1924. He graduated from Eton in 1940 and spent a year at Oxford before being drafted into the army in 1942. When it became clear that he was suffering from tuberculosis, he was dismissed from service and returned to London, where he began writing reviews for \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e and working on the short stories that would later be collected in \u003ci\u003eOut of the War\u003c\/i\u003e (not published until 1974). During the 1950s he worked as a critic and editor at Queen and in 1964 was hired by \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e, where he stayed until 1980. He collaborated with David King on Trotsky: A Documentary and is the author of a collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Theatre of Embarrassment\u003c\/i\u003e; a novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Other Garden\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 1987 Whitbread First Novel Award); and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Jean Rhys.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlan Hollinghurst\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star\u003c\/i\u003e (short-listed for the Booker Prize), \u003ci\u003eThe Spell, The Line of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize), as well as of a translation of the play \u003ci\u003eBajazet\u003c\/i\u003e by Racine. A former staff member at \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement,\u003c\/i\u003e Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n                                \n                            \n                            \u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":45439460606113,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781590173121","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/files\/9781590173121.jpg?v=1764183528","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/the-complete-fiction-paperback-by-francis-wyndham-introduction-by-alan-hollinghurst","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}