Short stories from the 1930s that remain as timely as the day they were written Falling in love. Falling out of love. Getting a job. Losing a job. Being too young. Being too old. Tess Slesinger's short stories deal with themes as timely as the day they were written. Though an activist in radical politics, her foremost concern was always with the hopes, fears, foibles, and needs of individual men and women. Her gift for subtle observation and gentle satire make the stories in TIME: THE PRESENT richly pleasurable on first reading--and deeply rewarding to revisit. With an introduction by Vivian Gornick and an afterword by Paula Rabinowitz
Tess Slesinger’s 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts. This cutting comedy about hard times, bad jobs, lousy marriages, little magazines, high principles, and the morning after bears comparison with the best work of Dawn Powell and Mary McCarthy.
Tess Slesinger’s 1934 novel, The Unpossessed details the ins and outs and ups and downs of left-wing New York intellectual life and features a cast of litterateurs, layabouts, lotharios, academic activists, and fur-clad patrons of protest and the arts. This cutting comedy about hard times, bad jobs, lousy marriages, little magazines, high principles, and the morning after bears comparison with the best work of Dawn Powell and Mary McCarthy.
Short stories from the 1930s that remain as timely as the day they were written Falling in love. Falling out of love. Getting a job. Losing a job. Being too young. Being too old. Tess Slesinger's short stories deal with themes as timely as the day they were written. Though an activist in radical politics, her foremost concern was always with the hopes, fears, foibles, and needs of individual men and women. Her gift for subtle observation and gentle satire make the stories in TIME: THE PRESENT richly pleasurable on first reading--and deeply rewarding to revisit. With an introduction by Vivian Gornick and an afterword by Paula Rabinowitz
An intensely feminine book, in which bleakness, unemployment, heartache, and heartlessness are combined with an agreeable feeling of settling down for conversation with an intimate, disillusioned, gossipy, malicious, and often very witty friend. --New Statesman
Moi non plus je ne t'ai pas oubliée Naomie. Je n'ai jamais pu." La colère et l'effarement se disputent en Jason. Est-ce vraiment Naomie, sa Naomie, qui vient de débarquer en trombe dans son bureau de commandant ? Après un premier amour fou au lycée, elle a disparu du jour au lendemain sans la moindre explication, et voilà que dix ans plus tard, elle resurgit dans sa vie ! Ou plutôt, sur son bateau de l'US Navy, en tant que scientifique détachée à la mission les emmenant au coeur des icebergs. Et ils vont devoir passer deux mois ensemble, à vivre et collaborer étroitement... alors qu'elle semble décidée à ignorer superbement ce qui les a liés et à lui refuser toute discussion personnelle. Face à ses yeux noisette qui pétillent de défi, Jason hésite entre la passer par-dessus bord et la plaquer contre un mur pour un baiser fiévreux.... A propos de l'autrice Passionnée de littérature, Tess Adley tombe sous le charme de la new romance et décide de passer de lectrice à autrice. Elle s’inspire de son quotidien et de ses passions pour donner vie à ses personnages et leur transmettre à chacun une part d’elle.
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