- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Virago Press Ltd; New edition edition (7 Dec 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1844084205
- ISBN-13: 978-1844084203
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,405,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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With uncompromising clarity, in her careful, delicate prose, antonia White looks at the pains and joys of growing up, of falling in and out of love, the borderlands between love and loneliness, sanity and madness, belief and the loss of faith. First published in 1954, STRANGERS is here extended to include her autobiographical story, 'Surprise Visit'; together they present some of Antonia White's finest writing.
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Antonia White was born in 1899 and educated at in London at St. Paul's and RADA. She worked as a journalist and in the Foreign Office.
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Antonia White was one of the first writers to appear in the Virago Modern Classics series, and is best known for her first novel, "Frost in May", a largely autobiographical account of her time at a convent school at the beginning of the last century. While "Frost in May" does not exacty paint a pretty picture of life under the nuns, it isn't necessarily anti-Catholic in its view point. It seems that the author had a love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church that lasted all her life. She's on safe ground when writing about her religion, and three of the eight stories in this collection are inspired by the rather unrecontructed Catholicism (by modern standards) of the time.
The other major themes in these stories are mental illness and the asylum. Again the author is speaking from personal experience, having had a breakdown as a young woman that led to her spending time in the Bethlem Asylum, London. Perhaps this doesn't sound too cheerful! But the stories are never morbid, just honest.
Generally speaking I tend to give short stories a miss. There isn't the time to get properly into them like there is with a novel.
But these stories are often thought-provoking, as well as easy to read.
The other major themes in these stories are mental illness and the asylum. Again the author is speaking from personal experience, having had a breakdown as a young woman that led to her spending time in the Bethlem Asylum, London. Perhaps this doesn't sound too cheerful! But the stories are never morbid, just honest.
Generally speaking I tend to give short stories a miss. There isn't the time to get properly into them like there is with a novel.
But these stories are often thought-provoking, as well as easy to read.
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