Metamorphosis : selected stories
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Metamorphosis : selected stories
（Penguin books）（Penguin fiction）
Penguin, 2022, c2021
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Originally published: Fig Free, 2021
Contents of Works
- Metamorphosis, or, The elephant's foot (2021). Metamorphosis, or, The elephant's foot
- Pack of cards (1978-1986). The emasculation of Ted Roper
- A clean death
- A long night at Abu Simbel
- A world of her own
- Bus-stop
- The Crimean Hotel
- Corruption
- Beyond the blue mountains (1997). The Slovenian giantess
- In olden times
- The clarinettist and the bride's aunt
- Marriage lines
- The cats' meat man
- The first wife
- The butterfly and the tin of paint
- The purple swamp hen (2016). The purple swamp hen
- Abroad
- Who do you think you were?
- Old as the hills
- The weekend
- Point of view
- Licence to kill
- Mrs Bennet
- Theory of mind
- The third wife
- Songs of praise (2021). Songs of praise
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Including new and never-before-published stories and forgotten treasures: the definitive selection of short stories from one of our greatest living writers, curated by the author herself
Wry, compassionate and glittering with wit, Penelope Lively's stories get beneath the everyday to the beating heart of human experience.
In intimate tales of growing up and growing old, chance encounters and life-long relationships, Lively explores with keen insight the ways that individuals can become tangled in history, and small acts ripple through the generations.
From new and never-before-published stories to forgotten treasures, Metamorphosis showcases the very best from a literary master.
'Lively has the gift, rare and wonderful, of being able to peel back the layers one by one and set them before us, translucent and gleaming' Sunday Telegraph
'Superb...The writing is as good as it gets' The Times
'Lively has guts and style. You are in the hands of a master' Daily Mail
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