Something Short and Sweet
by H. E. Bates
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (UK & ANZ)
Bloomsbury Reader
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Description
Something Short and Sweet, H. E. Bates’s sixth collection first published in 1937, demonstrates his mastery of character and form. Richard Church, writing in John O'London's Weekly, stated that this collection confirmed his belief that Bates "is an immortal...Here is a creative artist whose technique in the art of the short story is comparable with that of the great masters in this form."
The title story explores the intricacies of the relationship between a forty-year-old evangelist and his twenty-year-old assistant. ‘Cloudburst’ and ‘Spring Snow’ are vignettes of human struggle in a rural context, similar to much of Bates's earlier work. ‘Finger Wet, Finger Dry’ and ‘The Sow and Silas’ continue Bates's success with the antics of Uncle Silas.
The title story explores the intricacies of the relationship between a forty-year-old evangelist and his twenty-year-old assistant. ‘Cloudburst’ and ‘Spring Snow’ are vignettes of human struggle in a rural context, similar to much of Bates's earlier work. ‘Finger Wet, Finger Dry’ and ‘The Sow and Silas’ continue Bates's success with the antics of Uncle Silas.
Advance Praise
‘Nervous and expressive, compressed and yet capacious, in Something Short and Sweet Mr H. E. bates now commands a wide range of subject and mood, including a humour unadulterated with conventional irony’ Times
‘The first thing that needs to be said about almost any book of stories by Mr Bates is that it stands in a class by itself' Times Literary Supplement
‘The first thing that needs to be said about almost any book of stories by Mr Bates is that it stands in a class by itself' Times Literary Supplement
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| ISBN | 9781448214952 |
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