Dimensions
129 x 198 x 20mm
A collection of Frederic Raphael's short stories that delivers the compact mixture of greed and desire, comedy and tragic irony to be expected of a master of brevity.
In 'The Siren's Song', a Greek shipping magnate makes a pact with the devils that haunt him. 'Lo And Behold!' is the preface and first chapter of the biography of the famous film star Dolores Haze - better known as Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. And intriguingly, coming from the screenwriter of Kubrick's last film, 'Eyes Wide Shut', the film-lecturer protagonist of the title piece is a New York Jew called Stanley . . . In short, a wonderful miscellany of stories to mesmerise and amuse.
