The Worm Turns: More Short Stories – a sequel to Bitter Aloes - Couverture souple

Baxter, Ms Marion

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0639932665 ISBN 13 : 9780639932668

Editeur : Footprints Press, 2019

Synopsis

This, the second volume for short stories by the late Marion Baxter, strengthens her reputation as an accomplished writer. Perhaps her most outstanding talent is the way she takes on the persona of the characters in her stories – as a teenage boy of mixed race, as a gung-ho press photographer, an adventurous widow, a stolid university professor, a grieving father turned hippie, a plagiarist poet, an earnest young Austrian musicologist, a wannabe suicide-committer, a student drug mule, a car thief – we can only admire her versatility.Before Baxter passed away in 2002, she had lived in Grahamstown for eighteen years, in which time she obtained her Master’s in English from Rhodes University while working for four of its institutes in turn - the International Library of African Music, the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, the Institute for the Study of English in Africa and the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, where she prepared the works of others for publication. Unlike many ultra-modern short stories, which are often content to rest as tangential vignettes with highly ambiguous endings, there is something a little more nineteenth-century in Baxter’s tales, both in their social detail and her evident desire to really conclude a story, draw the purse-string tight at the end. It’s as if she learned somehow to combine Thomas Hardy, Edgar Allan Poe and Bosman, while developing a voice that is securely her own.Prof Dan Wylie

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Footprints Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0639932665
• ISBN 13: 9780639932668
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
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