The Lydia Steptoe Stories

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. 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 S teptoe, 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 inter cepts her first tryst by dressing up as her male lover. A boy of the same a ge is lured into the forest by his father's mistress. A woman of forty fall s in love and longs to kill herself, so unbearable is the return of the you th she thought she wanted. 'Alice', she tells herself, 'be a man.' Barnes makes gender and desire seem slippery and joyful - and makes the fic tional 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.

Product Info

ISBN: 0571352472

ISBN-13: 9780571352470

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Year: 2019

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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