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Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies.
By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award.
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"The most sensuous writer in the land" (Fay Weldon )
"These stories of sex pack a truly original pungency... kicking off belly-laughs or melting you with an apt phrase, Simpson makes a delectable debut" (Mail on Sunday )
"She can be sparingly tragic and unsparingly funny... A unique writer" (Ruth Rendell )
"Outstanding... You should read her" (The Times )
"Dazzlingly original... Simpson's black-hearted humour is something to relish" (Sunday Times )
Book Description
'Stories told in such succulent prose that you wince at their brevity... a most exceptional debut' - Evening Standard
The first of Helen Simpson's 3 books of short stories (and, despite what it says above, now published by Vintage with a different cover) is a perceptive and amusing collections of short stories about love, marriage and motherhood. Though it has some of the uneveness which comes with being a first book, it is well worth reading (especially for the Greek-style play about giving birth, which features 2 choruses of midwives). Anyone who enjoys this book should also rush out and get hold of some of Lorrie Moore's short fiction.
Now republished in the USA by Vintage as 'Getting a Life: Stories', this is one of the best collection of humorous wildly sexy passionate stories I have ever read. Outrageously funny and wry, my train commute will just never be the same again!
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Amazon.com:3.0 out of 5 stars 1 review
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 starsits like i'm overhearing closed door talk amongst women7 Jan 1998
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
chose this book for free cause i bought something else. while some of the stories come across as it's hard to be a woman whine they aren't. a clear collection of the thoughts behind maybe silent faces of women in relationships. personal likes "labour " and "escape clauses". some are slightly flowery and subtle. this is not a book about sex as the title may suggest, rather an almost not quite opposite. as a guy some parts made me nervous and provoked thought.
