Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the success of a variety of artificial contraceptives, including "the pills," some medical investigators cling wistfully to the idea that somewhere in the animal or vegetable kingdom there must be an antifertility agent that would be "more natural." Their belief has rested on weak reeds: on every continent, among...
These ten stories steer misfit characters on wildly futile tacks toward identity. They are contemporary fairy tales, dreams embedded in urban concrete and spun from the thoughts of people who could not conceivably exist. But beneath the deceptive surface lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by...
PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. In three long short stories set in the weary world of Continental society, people manipulate friends as well as cards to shake their boredom. In both games there is always a loser, but in worldly collapse each of Gellhorn's failures...
PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. In three long short stories set in the weary world of Continental society, people manipulate friends as well as cards to shake their boredom. In both games there is always a loser, but in worldly collapse each of Gellhorn's failures...
Pretty Polly, the first of these three medium-length tales, is that rare bird, a story that celebrates the joys of breaking taboos without ever once dishing out comeuppance griefs. Mrs. Capper's Birthday is a gentle portrait of a World War II widow who has never quite adjusted...