A chance encounter leads a man to spend the afternoon with an older woman, now a widow, who escaped him fifteen years earlier. Neither of them doubts that the day will end in disgust, but for one intimate moment each finds a way to overcome mortality.
Written in 1969, before Milan Kundera was known to English-speaking readers, this story renders male and female characters painful equals, and prompted Philip Roth to admire its 'detached Chekhovian tenderness'.
Product code: 9780571356904
| ISBN |
9780571356904 |
| Dimensions (HxWxD in mm) |
H160xW134xS4 |
| Series |
Faber Stories |
| No. Of Pages |
48 |
| Publisher |
Faber & Faber |
| Edition |
Main |