A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith
, by Smith, StevieNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780811212953 | 0811212955
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 6/17/1995
A great poet and novelist (Novel on Yellow Paper), Stevie Smith also wrote delightful short prose. And here, in A Very Pleasant Evening with Stevie Smith, is the very best of it: eight stories and four essays mixing throw-away charm and deadly sophistication. Her stories delight and surprise; her essays defend favorite subjects, such as cats and the suburbs. "Life in the suburbs is richer at the lower levels. At these levels people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty to be as eccentric as they please, they do not know they are eccentric."