SHORT STORIES
The Stone Arbour. By Roger Angell. Gollancz. 227 pp. There is little to choose in the matter of quality between these 12 short stories: all reveal masterly powers of observation. and all originally appeared in the pages of the “New ‘Yorker.’’ A pleasant vein of satire runs through most of them. In “Children on the Shore" a rich childless couple who go to stay with impoverished relations at the seaside become involved in near-tragedies, and the hair, breadth escapes from them of wild youngsters whose affections and oneness with their feckless parents throw into relief the sterility of their visitors' relationship. “In an Early Winter” is the ccmi-tragic story of a primsy. unimaginative woman who finds herself married into a family which is happy-go-lucky and accident prone, and then learns to her unspeakable horror that her husband's first wife had met a sudden and untimely death. "Some Pigs in Sailor Suits” is savage commentary on the high-up planners of bombwarfare, who discuss with glee the steps they are taking to organise wholesale destruction. Two of ths stones. “Cote d’azur” and “Summer in the Mountains” touch springs of compassion Everyone to his own taste: the intelligent reader will find more than one memorable story in this collection.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19620609.2.8.3
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CI, Issue 29844, 9 June 1962, Page 3
Word Count
208SHORT STORIES Press, Volume CI, Issue 29844, 9 June 1962, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in